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Strangers at the bedside : a history of how law and bioethics transformed medical decision making /

Rothman, David J.

Strangers at the bedside : a history of how law and bioethics transformed medical decision making / David J. Rothman. - 2nd pbk. ed. - New York : Aldine de Gruyter, 2003. - xi, 313 p. ; 23 cm. - Social institutions and social change .

Notes: p. 276-302.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 302) and index.

Introduction: making the invisible visible -- The nobility of the material -- Research at war -- The guilded age of research -- The doctor as whistle-blower -- New rules for the laboratory -- Bedside ethics -- The doctor as stranger -- Life through death -- Commissioning ethics -- No one to trust -- New rules for the bedside -- Epilogue: The price of success.

0202307255 (pbk. alk. paper)

2003011853


Medicine--Decision making--History.--United States
Medicine--Research--Decision making--History.--United States
Medical ethics--History.--United States

R723.5 / .R67 2003

610.69/6/0973

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