historical, conceptual, and ethical dimensions of iatrogenic illness /
Virginia A. Sharpe, Alan I. Faden.
New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
xi, 280 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-270) and index.
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.
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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.