Just Doctoring draws the doctor-patient relationship out of the   consulting room and into the middle of the legal and political arenas where it   more and more frequently appears. Traditionally, medical ethics has focused on   the isolated relationship of physician to patient in a setting that has left the   physician virtually untouched by market constraints or government regulation.   Arguing that changes in health care institutions and legal attention to patient   rights have made conventional approaches obsolete, Troyen Brennan points the way   to a new, more aware and engaged medical ethics.  The medical profession is no longer isolated, even theoretically, from the   liberal, market-dominated state. Old ideas of physician beneficence and altruism   must make way for a justice-based medical ethics, assuming a relationship   between equals more compatible with liberal political philosophy. Brennan offers   clinical examples of many of today's most challenging medical problemsfrom   informed consent to care rationing and the repercussions of the HIV epidemicand   gives his recommendation for a new ethical perspective. This lively and   controversial plea for a rethinking of medical ethics goes right to the heart of   medical care at the end of the twentieth century.

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