Just Doctoring : Medical Ethics in the Liberal State / Troyen Brennan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brennan, Troyen, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics--History.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

“A Centennial Book”, Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 The Liberal State

2 The Medical Enterprise and Medical Ethics

3 Medicine in the Liberal State

4 Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics for the 1990s

5 Informed Consent

6 Physicians and Quality of Medical Care

7 The Challenge of AIDS

8 Limits on Care

9 The Economic and Political Structure of Medical Practice

10 Concluding Thoughts: Trust and Antitrust

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Apr 2021)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520319585

0520319583

OCLC:

1243311400