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" Medical harm : "
Virginia A. Sharpe, Alan I. Faden.
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BL
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964182
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b718552
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| Main Entry
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Sharpe, Virginia A., (Virginia Ashby),1959-
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Medical harm : : historical, conceptual, and ethical dimensions of iatrogenic illness /\ Virginia A. Sharpe, Alan I. Faden.
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Cambridge ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, 1998.
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xi, 280 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0521571332
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: 0521634903
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: 9780521571333
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: 9780521634908
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-270) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Divided loyalties: harm to the profession vs. harm to the patient -- 2. Medical epistemology, medical authority and shifting interpretations of beneficence and nonmaleficence -- 3. Medical harms and patients' rights: the democratization of medical morality -- 4. The moral basis of medicine: why 'do no harm'? -- 5. Due care as a specification of the duty to 'do no harm' -- 6. Conceptual and ethical dimensions of medical harm -- 7. From hospitalism to nosocomial infection control -- 8. Adverse effects of drug treatment -- 9. Unnecessary surgery -- 10. The concept of appropriateness in patient care -- 11. Recommendations for limiting iatrogenic harm.
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The first broad interdisciplinary analysis of the phenomenon of medically-induced illness and injury, the book integrates history, philosophy, medical ethics and empirical data to examine the concept of medical harm.
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American Medical Association.
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Drugs-- Side effects.
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Iatrogenic diseases.
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Surgery, Unnecessary.
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Chirurgie inutile.
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Maladies iatrogéniques.
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Médicaments-- Effets secondaires.
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44.59 diagnostic and therapy: other.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Drugs-- Side effects.
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Ethik
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Gesundheitsvorsorge
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Iatrogene Krankheit
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Iatrogenic diseases.
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Medizinschaden
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Prävention
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Surgery, Unnecessary.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Ethik.
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Gesundheitsvorsorge.
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Iatrogene Krankheit.
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Medizinschaden.
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Prävention.
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Iatrogenic Disease-- prevention control.
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Iatrogene ziekten.
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Medische ethiek.
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Delivery of Health Care.
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Ethics, Medical.
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| Dewey Classification
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615.5
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RC90.S46 1998
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QZ 42S532m 1998
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44.59bcl
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Faden, A. I.
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