Patient, Heal Thyself: How the New Medicine Puts the Patient in Charge

by Robert M. Veatch

Book Overview

Robert Veatch is one of the founding fathers of contemporary bioethics. In Patient, Heal Thyself, he sheds light on a fundamental change sweeping through the American health care system, a change that puts the patient in charge of treatment to an unprecedented extent. The change is in how we think about medical decision-making. Whereas medicine's core idea was that medical decisions should be based on the hard facts of science--the province of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195313720
• ISBN13: 9780195313727
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"