Title: Trust is not enough : bringing human rights to medicine /
Authors: Rothman, David J.; Rothman, Sheila M.
Publisher: New York Review Books,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Medical ethics.; Public health Moral and ethical aspects; Human rights Health aspects.; Bioethical Issues; Human Rights Abuses; Human Rights; Internationality; Organ Transplantation ethics; Torture ethics; Global Health; Global Health.
Abstract: "During the last half-century many international declarations have proclaimed health care to be a fundamental human right. But high aspirations repeatedly confront harsh realities, in societies both rich and poor. To illustrate this disparity, David and Sheila Rothman bring together stories from their investigations around the world into medical abuses. A central theme runs through their account: how the principles of human rights, including bodily integrity, informed consent, and freedom from coercion, should guide physicians and governments in dealing with patients and health care."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: The international traffic in organs -- India's awful prisons -- The shame of medical research -- Serving Clio and client: the historian as expert witness -- Rationing life -- The right to health care: lessons from South Africa -- Death in Zimbabwe -- AIDS and Romania's orphans -- Working stiffs: the medical resident and medicine as a profession.