In the Public Interest Download

Author: Professor Ruth Horowitz
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0813554276
Category: Medical

In the Public Interest: Medical Licensing and the Disciplinary Process (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

How do we know when physicians practice medicine safely? Can we trust doctors to discipline their own? What is a proper role of experts in a democracy? In the Public Interest raises these provocative questions, using medical licensing and discipline to advocate for a needed overhaul of how we decide public good in a society dominated by private interest groups. Download In the Public Interest medical books for free.
Throughout the twentieth century, American physicians built a powerful profession, but their drive toward professional autonomy has made outside observers increasingly concerned about physicians' ability to separate their own interests from those of the general public.

Ruth Horowitz traces the history of medical licensure and the mechanisms that democratic societies have Get In the Public Interest our bestseller medical books.

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