Research Catalog

Title

Doctors in denial : the forgotten women in the 'unfortunate experiment' / Ronald W. Jones.

Author

Jones, Ronald W., Dr.

Publication

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2017.

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Details

Description

248 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

A first-hand account by one of the doctors who exposed the truth at National Women's Hospital. Jones sets the record straight with his personal story: a story of the unnecessary suffering of countless women, a story of professional arrogance and misplaced loyalties, and a story of doctors in denial of the truth.

Subject

• Cervix uteri > Treatment
• Cervix uteri > Treatment > New Zealand
• History, 20th Century
• Human Experimentation > ethics
• Human experimentation in medicine
• Human experimentation in medicine > New Zealand
• Informed Consent > ethics
• Medical ethics
• Medical ethics > New Zealand
• National Women's Hospital (Auckland, N.Z.)
• New Zealand
• Precancerous Conditions > therapy
• Uterine Cervical Neoplasms > history
• Watchful Waiting > ethics
• Women's health services
• Women's health services > New Zealand

Genre/Form

Personal Narrative

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 225-236) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Neville hacker -- Introduction -- 1. A professorial appointment -- 2. The evolution of a misbelief -- 3. An unnecessary experiment -- 4. Expressions of concern -- 5. Whitewash -- 6. Phoebe's story -- 7. Nineteen eighty-four -- 8. Annus horribilis -- 9. Irreconcilable differences -- 10. Aftermath -- 11. Right or wrong: heal or harm? -- 12. Mabel's story -- 13. A profession divided -- 14. Mea culpa -- Epilogue -- Postscript: Revisionism and denial -- Appendix: Summary of the main findings of the Cartwright Inquiry.

ISBN

• 0947522433
• 9780947522438

OCLC

961938222

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library