Strangers At The Bedside: A History Of How Law And Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making - Softcover
Synopsis
What caused physicians in the USA to confront committees, forms, and active patients? Tracing the revolution that transformed the doctor-patient relationship, this book takes the reader into the laboratory and the examining room, tracing the development of new technologies and social attitudes.
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About the Author
David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine, professor of history, and director of the Center for the Study of Science and Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. He is the author of numerous works, including The Willowbrook Wars, The Discovery of the Asylum, and The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement.
Review
"For anyone wishing to become acquainted with this field, I would recommend reading [Strangers at the Bedside] for a situated, historical account."
—Kathryn Ehrich, Medical Sociology News
"Rothman has written an informative and insightful account of how American medicine has been transformed over the past twenty-five years. . . . He gives a masterful outline of academic bioethics, one of the primary sources of transformation. His discussion of certain key issues -- the availability of kidney dialysis machines, transplantation, and the wrenching decisions about sick newborns -- is particularly good. . . . [Strangers at the Bedside] is recommended to anyone seeking to understand how bioethics and the law have become so important in research and clinical medicine in American society today."
—Stephen E. Lammers, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Rothman's book is an exciting intellectual history."
—Charles L. Bosk, Contemporary Sociology
"Rothman illuminates a major transformation in American medicine. . . . This is an important book that deserves wide readership."
—Ronald L. Numbers, The American Historical Review
"The landscape of biomedical research and clinical medicine has changed dramatically in the past twenty-five years. Professor David J. Rothman. . . chronicles this change in a well-written and thoughtful book that should be read by anyone who is concerned about the evolving relatioship between medical researchers and their subjects or between doctors and their patients."
—Greg Gramelspacher, The Journal of American History
"[Rothman's] book is a fascinating effort chronicling recent changes in medical practice in the United States."
—Susan McIntosh, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
"David Rothman's challenging new book is essential reading for understanding the transformation in public and professional attitudes that recast medical decision making and launched the new discipline of bioethics. . . . Although the current throng of outsiders in a patient's room may well be a transitional stage in the history of relations between doctors and patients, this work will surely enjoy a more lasting place in the historiography of twentieth-century medicine."
—Susan E. Lederer, Isis
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