The criminalization of medicine
Subtitle: America's war on doctors
By: Ronald T. Libby.
Series: Praeger series on contemporary health and living
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780313345463
Subjects: United States. -- Drug Enforcement Administration; Physicians -- United States -- Discipline; Medical laws and legislation -- United States; Drug control -- United States; Medical care, Cost of -- United States; Physicians -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States; Ethics, Professional -- United States; Fraud -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States; Prescriptions, Drug -- United States; Scapegoating -- United States; Social Behavior -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Decline in the status of doctors: the tragic case of Dr. Benjamin Moore; title: Medical McCarthyism; title: Prosecuting doctors: sexual harassment and creating crimes; title: Judicial prejudice, state terrorism, and forced medication: the cases of Jeffrey J. Rutgard, M.D., George O. Krizek, M.D. and Charles T. Sell, D.D.S.; title: Prosecutorial overreach: anti-kickback laws and the "Pinellas 14"; title: DEA drug warriors: targeting doctors as drug dealers; title: Witch-hunt for "drug-dealing" doctors: James Graves, M.D., and Frank Fisher, M.D.; title: DEA show trial: "magical moments" and the comprehensive care conspiracy.