Strangers at the bedside
Subtitle: a history of how law and bioethics transformed medical decision making
By: David J. Rothman.
Edition: 2nd pbk. ed.
Series: Social institutions and social change
Publisher: Aldine de Gruyter
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Ethics, Medical -- history; Jurisprudence
Description: "This study of the transformation of the relationship between doctors and patients from the mid-Sixties to the mid-Seventies has acquired the status of a minor classic. In this paperback edition the author has added an afterword on patient autonomy that encompasses some more recent changes in the practice of medicine and the evolving field loosely, but inexactly, characterized as bioethics. He has left intact his portrayal of the earlier, epochal changes that are the subject of the book."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Notes: p. 276-302.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 302) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: making the invisible visible; title: The nobility of the material; title: Research at war; title: The guilded age of research; title: The doctor as whistle-blower; title: New rules for the laboratory; title: Bedside ethics; title: The doctor as stranger; title: Life through death; title: Commissioning ethics; title: No one to trust; title: New rules for the bedside; title: Epilogue: The price of success.