The Physician as Captain of the Ship

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: King, Nancy M. P. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Churchill, Larry R. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Cross, Alan W. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1988.
• Σειρά: Philosophy and Medicine ; 29
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Public health.; Medical ethics.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

"The fixed person for fixed duties, who in older societies was such a godsend, in the future ill be a public danger." Twenty years ago, a single legal metaphor accurately captured the role that American society accorded to physicians. The physician was "c- tain of the ship." Phys...