Worse than the disease : pitfalls of medical progress /
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| Author / Creator: | Dutton, Diana Barbara |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988. |
| Description: | xvi, 528 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/914919 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Part I. Overview
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Where are we and how did we get there?
- Part II. Four Case Studies
- 3. DES and the elusive goal of drug safety
- 4. The artificial heart Thomas A. Preston
- 5. The swine flu immunization program
- 6. Genetic engineering: science and social responsibility Diana B. Dutton and Nancy E. Pfund
- Part III. Lessons, Questions and Challenges
- 7. Risks and rights
- 8. Compensating the injuries of medical innovation
- 9. What is fair? Medical innovation and justice
- 10. The role of the public
- 11. What is possible? towards medical progress in the public interest
- Notes
- Index
