Strangers At The Bedside: A History Of How Law And Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making

What caused physicians in the USA to confront committees, forms, and active patients? Tracing the revolution that transformed the doctor-patient relationship, this book takes the reader into the laboratory and the examining room, tracing the development of new technologies and social attitudes.

• Author
• David J. Rothman

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 320

• Series
• Social Institutions and Social Change

• Publisher
• Basic Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780465082100

• Genres
• health, medicine, science, history

• Release date
• 1992