Disrupted Dialogue: Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician-Humanist Communication (1770-1980)

by Robert M. Veatch

Book Overview

Medical ethics changed dramatically in the past 30 years because physicians and humanists actively engaged each other in discussions that sometimes led to confrontation and controversy, but usually have improved the quality of medical decision-making. Before then medical ethics had been isolated for almost two centuries from the larger philosophical, social, and religious controversies of the time. There was, however, an earlier period where leaders...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019516976X
• ISBN13: 9780195169768
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"