书目名称 | Strange Bedfellows | 副标题 | How Medical Jurispru | 编辑 | Ben A. Rich | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The pervasive influence of law on medical practice and clinical bioethics is often noted with a combination of exasperation and lamentation. Physicians and non-physician bioethicists, generally speaking, consider the willingness of courts, legislatures, and regulatory agencies to insinuate themselves into clinical practice and medical research to be a distinctly negative aspect of contemporary American society. They are quick to point out that their colleagues in other Western developed nations are not similarly afflicted, and that the situation which obtains elsewhere is highly preferable to the legalization and purported over-regulation of medicine that has taken place in the United States during the last fifty years. In this book I offer a decidedly different perspective. It is, admittedly, not entirely without personal and professional bias. Prior to becoming a fu- time academic, teaching bioethics in the setting of an academic medical center, I was, for nearly 20 years, an attorney specializing in health law. Even after earning a doctorate in philosophy, I was frequently considered to be the “resident lawyer” on the bioethics faculty, much more frequently looked to for my insi | 出版日期 | Book 2002 | 关键词 | Ethics; Medical Ethics; autonomy; bioethics; morality | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46849-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-017-3904-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-0-306-46849-0 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002 |
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