Strangers at the bedside
Subtitle: a history of how law and bioethics transformed medical decision making
By: David J. Rothman.
Publisher: BasicBooks
Published: 1991
Place of publication: [New York, NY]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Medicine -- United States -- Decision making -- History; Medicine -- Research -- United States -- Decision making -- History; Medical ethics -- United States -- History
Description: Explains the revolution that has taken place in patient care -- a revolution that has transformed the relationship between doctors and patients, and between medicine and society.
Notes: "Citations to Henry Beecher's 1966 article": p. 263-265.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-292) and index.