Trust is Not Enough: Bringing Human Rights to Medicine Reviews

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Edition: 1
Release: 2006-06-06
Publisher: New York Review Books
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: B008SLXG6I
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Addresses the issues at the heart of international medicine and social responsibility.

During the last half-century many international declarations have proclaimed health care to be a fundamental human right. But high aspirations repeatedly confront harsh realities, in societies both rich and poor. To illustrate this disparity, David and Sheila Rothman bring together stories from their investigations around the world into medical abuses. A central theme runs through their account: how the principles of human rights, including bodily integrity, informed consent, and freedom from coercion, should guide physicians and governments in dealing with patients and health care.

Over the past two decades, the Rothmans have visited post-Ceausescu Romania, where they uncovered the primitive medical practices that together with state oppression caused hundreds of orphans to develop AIDS. They have monitored the exploitative international traffic in organs in India, China, Singapore, an Download Trust is Not Enough for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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