Who Should Decide?: Paternalism in Health Care

by James F. Childress

Book Overview

"A very good book indeed: there is scarcely an issue anyone has thought to raise about the topic which Childress fails to treat with sensitivity and good judgement....Future discussions of paternalism in health care will have to come to terms with the contentions of this book, which must be reckoned the best existing treatment of its subject."--Ethics. "A clear, scholarly and balanced analysis....This is a book I can recommend to physicians, ethicists,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019503127X
• ISBN13: 9780195031270
• Release Date: October 1982
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"