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Release: 1993-03-25
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0195053842
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Doctors and the Law pdf
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After the American Revolution, the new republic's most prominent physicians envisioned a society in which doctors, lawyers, and the state would work together to ensure public well-being and a high standard of justice. By the 1830s, medical jurisprudence was being taught as an important subject in the nation's best medical schools, new medical ideas about insanity inspired major legal reforms, and legal issues stimulated medical advances. Medical malpractice suits were so rare as to be curiosities. But as James C. Mohr reveals in Doctors and the Law, by mid-century what had once appeared to be fertile ground for cooperative civic service had become a battlefield, and the relationship between doctors and the legal system became increasingly adversarial.
Mohr provides a graceful and lucid narrative of this startling transition from civic republicanism to marketplace professionalism. He shows how, by 1900, everything had changed for the worse: doctors and lawyers were at each other Download Doctors and the Law for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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