Our Hands Are Tied: Legal Tensions and Medical Ethics

by Marshall B. Kapp

Book Overview

As a critical examination of the pervasive tension existing between defensive medicine and good, ethical patient care, this book investigates the impact of legalities on medical treatment. Physicians today are apprehensive about the threat of malpractice suits. Kapp explores the extent to which this fear is justified. He examines where physicians get their ideas about what the law forbids and requires, how physicians' perceptions of the law and medicine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865692769
• ISBN13: 9780865692763
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"