Our Hands Are Tied: Legal Tensions and Medical Ethics

by Marshall B. Kapp

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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"

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Administration & Medicine Economics Administration & Policy Administrative Law Education & Reference Ethics Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting Law Medical Medical Books Medical Ethics Medicine Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences Textbooks

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