| Description |
xi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Divided loyalties: harm to the profession vs. harm to the patient -- 2. Medical epistemology, medical authority and shifting interpretations of beneficence and nonmaleficence -- 3. Medical harms and patients' rights: the democratization of medical morality -- 4. The moral basis of medicine: why 'do no harm'? -- 5. Due care as a specification of the duty to 'do no harm' -- 6. Conceptual and ethical dimensions of medical harm -- 7. From hospitalism to nosocomial infection control -- 8. Adverse effects of drug treatment -- 9. Unnecessary surgery -- 10. The concept of appropriateness in patient care -- 11. Recommendations for limiting iatrogenic harm |
| Summary |
The first broad interdisciplinary analysis of the phenomenon of medically-induced illness and injury, the book integrates history, philosophy, medical ethics and empirical data to examine the concept of medical harm |
| Analysis |
Drugs--Side effects |
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Iatrogenic diseases |
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Surgery, Unnecessary |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographic references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-270) and index |
| Subject |
Drugs -- Side effects.
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Iatrogenic diseases.
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Medical care.
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Medical ethics.
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Surgery, Unnecessary.
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Iatrogenic Disease -- prevention & control.
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Delivery of Health Care.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Delivery of Health Care.
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Ethics, Medical.
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| Author |
Faden, A. I.
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| LC no. |
97011814 |
| ISBN |
0521571332 (hardback) |
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0521634903 (paperback) |
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