Medical harm : historical, conceptual, and ethical dimensions of iatrogenic illness
The first broad interdisciplinary analysis of the phenomenon of medically-induced illness and injury, the book integrates history, philosophy, medical ethics and empirical data to examine the concept of medical harm
Aufsatzsammlung
xi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521571333, 9780521634908, 0521571332, 0521634903
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1. Divided loyalties: harm to the profession vs. harm to the patient
2. Medical epistemology, medical authority and shifting interpretations of beneficence and nonmaleficence
3. Medical harms and patients' rights: the democratization of medical morality
4. The moral basis of medicine: why 'do no harm'?
5. Due care as a specification of the duty to 'do no harm'
6. Conceptual and ethical dimensions of medical harm
7. From hospitalism to nosocomial infection control
8. Adverse effects of drug treatment
9. Unnecessary surgery
10. The concept of appropriateness in patient care
11. Recommendations for limiting iatrogenic harm