In the Public Interest: Medical Licensing and the Disciplinary Process

by Ruth Horowitz

Winner of the American Sociological Association Sociology of Law Section 2013 Outstanding Book Award

How do we know when physicians practice medicine safely? Can we trust doctors to discipline their own? What is a proper role of experts in a democracy? In the Public Interest raises these provocative questions, using medical licensing and discipline to advocate for a needed overhaul of how we decide public good in a society...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813554268
• ISBN13: 9780813554266
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary