To Do No Harm: Des and the Dilemmas of Modern Medicine

by Susan Fisher and Roberta J. Apfel

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"Apfel and Fisher raise important questions about the explosion of modern medical technology. They vividly delineate the factors contributing to experimentation with new techniques and drugs and how the pressures experienced by physicians, coupled with their fantasies of heroism, meld with pressures from their patients to tempt them to take risks prematurely.... The volume is provocative and effective. It should be read by all who take part in...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0300036191

ISBN13:9780300036190

Release Date:September 1986

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:204 Pages

Weight:0.50 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"

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