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

by Susan Fisher and Roberta J. Apfel

Book Overview

"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"