Strangers at the bedside [electronic resource] : a history of how law and bioethics transformed medical decision making / David J. Rothman

Author	Rothman, David J
Title	Strangers at the bedside [electronic resource] : a history of how law and bioethics transformed medical decision making / David J. Rothman
Imprint	New York : Aldine de Gruyter, 2003
Edition	2nd pbk. ed
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Descript	xi, 313 p. 23 cm

CONTENT

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

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