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Trust is not enough : bringing human rights to medicine

Title
Trust is not enough : bringing human rights to medicine / David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman ; preface by Aryeh Neier.
Author
Rothman, David J.
Publication
New York : New York Review Books, 2006.
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Rothman, Sheila M.
Description
xvi, 213 pages; 22 cm
Summary
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Medical ethics
  • Public health > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Human rights > Health aspects
  • Bioethical Issues
  • Human Rights Abuses
  • Human Rights
  • Internationality
  • Organ Transplantation > ethics
  • Torture > ethics
  • Global Health
Note
  • "A New York Review collection"--Jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
I. Bodily integrity -- 1. The international traffic in organs -- 2. India's awful prisons -- II. Informed consent and freedom from coercion -- 3. The shame of medical research -- 4. Serving clio and client : the historian as expert witness -- III. Rights to equity and fairness in health care -- 5. Rationing life -- 6. The right to health care : lessons from South Africa -- IV. Protection from medical harm -- 7. Death in Zimbabwe -- 8. AIDS and Romania's orphans -- 9. Working stiffs : the medical resident and medicine as a profession.
ISBN
1590171403 (alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2006002971
  • 9781590171400
OCLC
  • ocm63472580
  • SCSB-5264647
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries