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Author Rothman, David J.

Title Strangers at the bedside : a history of how law and bioethics transformed medical decision making / David J. Rothman.

Publication Info. New York : Aldine de Gruyter, 2003.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  610.696 R846S    Check Shelf
Edition Second paperback edition.
Description xi, 313 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Social institutions and social change
Social institutions and social change.
Note Notes: p. 276-302.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 302) and index.
Contents Introduction: making the invisible visible -- The nobility of the material -- Research at war -- The guilded age of research -- The doctor as whistle-blower -- New rules for the laboratory -- Bedside ethics -- The doctor as stranger -- Life through death -- Commissioning ethics -- No one to trust -- New rules for the bedside -- Epilogue: The price of success.
Subject Medicine -- United States -- Decision making -- History.
Medicine -- Research -- United States -- Decision making -- History.
Medical ethics -- United States -- History.
ISBN 0202307255 paperback : alk. paper
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