Strangers at the bedside : a history of how law and bioethics transformed medical decision making / David J. Rothman.

[New York, N.Y.] : BasicBooks, [1991], ©1991.

xi, 303 pages ; 24 cm

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Slatner

Nobility of the material -- Research at war -- Gilded age of research -- Doctor as whistle-blower -- New rules for the laboratory -- Bedside ethics -- Doctor as stranger -- Life through death -- Commissioning ethics -- No one to trust -- New rules for the bedside.

"Citations to Henry Beecher's 1966 article": p. 263-265

Includes bibliographic references (p. 266-292) and index