Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine: Fallibility and Responsibility in Clinical Science

by Kenneth W. Goodman

Book Overview

The growth of evidence-based medicine has occurred against a backdrop of health care reform, managed care, cost containment and quality improvement, and clinicians have been urged to adopt the rigours of science while remaining true to their 'clinical judgement'. This tension - between efforts to make medical practice more scientific and the suspicions of many clinicians - has caused one of the greatest practical and ethical challenges in the history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521796539
• ISBN13: 9780521796538
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 8.9"