Research Catalog

Title

Our hands are tied : legal tensions and medical ethics / Marshall B. Kapp.

Author

Kapp, Marshall B.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Auburn House, 1998.

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Description

xiv, 175 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"As a critical examination of the pervasive tension existing between defensive medicine and good, ethical patient care, this book investigates the impact of legalities on medical treatment. Physicians today are apprehensive about the threat of malpractice suits. Kapp explores the extent to which this fear is justified. He examines where physicians get their ideas about what the law forbids and requires, how physicians' perceptions of the law and medicine affect medical care, and whether these behavioral manifestations benefit or hurt a physician's ability to practice ethically. Kapp then suggests ways medical professionals can resolve tension caused by conflicting demands and encourage more ethical care."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Physicians > Malpractice > United States
• Adversary system (Law) > United States
• Medical ethics > United States
• Ethics, Medical
• Malpractice
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Losing at the Lottery: Physician Perceptions of the Legal Environment -- 2. The Lawyer Made Me Do It: From Legal Perception to Medical Practice -- 3. Risk Managers and Legal Counsel: Ethical Enablers or Paid Paranoids? -- 4. Doing Everything: Treating Legal Fears near the End of Life -- 5. Who Is Responsible for This? Everyday Patient Intrusions to Protect the Provider -- 6. "A Dispirited Lot": Malpractice and What Else? -- 7. Reconciling Risk Management and Medical Ethics: Opportunities and Obstacles.

ISBN

0865692769 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97038581

OCLC

• ocm37755135
• SCSB-5096385

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries