David Rothman gives us a brilliant, finely etched study of medical practice today. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the practice of medicine in the USA underwent a most remarkable and thoroughly controversial transformation. The discretion that the profession once enjoyed has been increasingly circumscribed, and now an almost bewildering number of parties and procedures participate in medical decision making.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments, Introduction: Making the Invisible Visible, 1. The Nobility of the Material, 2. Research at War, 3. The Guilded Age of Research, 4. The Doctor as Whistle-Blower, 5. New Rules for the Laboratory, 6. Bedside Ethics, 7. The Doctor as Stranger, 8. Life Through Death, 9. Commissioning Ethics, 10. No One to Trust, 11. New Rules for the Bedside, Epilogue: The Price of Success, Afterword, Appendix A, Notes, Index
Review :
-For anyone wishing to become acquainted with this field, I would recommend reading [Strangers at the Bedside] for a situated, historical account.-
--Kathryn Ehrich, Medical Sociology News
-Rothman has written an informative and insightful account of how American medicine has been transformed over the past twenty-five years. . . . He gives a masterful outline of academic bioethics, one of the primary sources of transformation. His discussion of certain key issues -- the availability of kidney dialysis machines, transplantation, and the wrenching decisions about sick newborns -- is particularly good. . . . [Strangers at the Bedside] is recommended to anyone seeking to understand how bioethics and the law have become so important in research and clinical medicine in American society today.-
--Stephen E. Lammers, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
-Rothman's book is an exciting intellectual history.-
--Charles L. Bosk, Contemporary Sociology
-Rothman illuminates a major transformation in American medicine. . . . This is an important book that deserves wide readership.-
--Ronald L. Numbers, The American Historical Review
-The landscape of biomedical research and clinical medicine has changed dramatically in the past twenty-five years. Professor David J. Rothman. . . chronicles this change in a well-written and thoughtful book that should be read by anyone who is concerned about the evolving relatioship between medical researchers and their subjects or between doctors and their patients.-
--Greg Gramelspacher, The Journal of American History
-[Rothman's] book is a fascinating effort chronicling recent changes in medical practice in the United States.-
--Susan McIntosh, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
-David Rothman's challenging new book is essential reading for understanding the transformation in public and professional attitudes that recast medical decision making and launched the new discipline of bioethics. . . . Although the current throng of outsiders in a patient's room may well be a transitional stage in the history of relations between doctors and patients, this work will surely enjoy a more lasting place in the historiography of twentieth-century medicine.-
--Susan E. Lederer, Isis
"For anyone wishing to become acquainted with this field, I would recommend reading [Strangers at the Bedside] for a situated, historical account."
--Kathryn Ehrich, Medical Sociology News
"Rothman has written an informative and insightful account of how American medicine has been transformed over the past twenty-five years. . . . He gives a masterful outline of academic bioethics, one of the primary sources of transformation. His discussion of certain key issues -- the availability of kidney dialysis machines, transplantation, and the wrenching decisions about sick newborns -- is particularly good. . . . [Strangers at the Bedside] is recommended to anyone seeking to understand how bioethics and the law have become so important in research and clinical medicine in American society today."
--Stephen E. Lammers, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Rothman's book is an exciting intellectual history."
--Charles L. Bosk, Contemporary Sociology
"Rothman illuminates a major transformation in American medicine. . . . This is an important book that deserves wide readership."
--Ronald L. Numbers, The American Historical Review
"The landscape of biomedical research and clinical medicine has changed dramatically in the past twenty-five years. Professor David J. Rothman. . . chronicles this change in a well-written and thoughtful book that should be read by anyone who is concerned about the evolving relatioship between medical researchers and their subjects or between doctors and their patients."
--Greg Gramelspacher, The Journal of American History
"[Rothman's] book is a fascinating effort chronicling recent changes in medical practice in the United States."
--Susan McIntosh, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
"David Rothman's challenging new book is essential reading for understanding the transformation in public and professional attitudes that recast medical decision making and launched the new discipline of bioethics. . . . Although the current throng of outsiders in a patient's room may well be a transitional stage in the history of relations between doctors and patients, this work will surely enjoy a more lasting place in the historiography of twentieth-century medicine."
--Susan E. Lederer, Isis
"For anyone wishing to become acquainted with this field, I would recommend reading [Strangers at the Bedside] for a situated, historical account."
--Kathryn Ehrich, Medical Sociology News
"Rothman has written an informative and insightful account of how American medicine has been transformed over the past twenty-five years. . . . He gives a masterful outline of academic bioethics, one of the primary sources of transformation. His discussion of certain key issues -- the availability of kidney dialysis machines, transplantation, and the wrenching decisions about sick newborns -- is particularly good. . . . [Strangers at the Bedside] is recommended to anyone seeking to understand how bioethics and the law have become so important in research and clinical medicine in American society today."
--Stephen E. Lammers, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Rothman's book is an exciting intellectual history."
--Charles L. Bosk, Contemporary Sociology
"Rothman illuminates a major transformation in American medicine. . . . This is an important book that deserves wide readership."
--Ronald L. Numbers, The American Historical Review
"The landscape of biomedical research and clinical medicine has changed dramatically in the past twenty-five years. Professor David J. Rothman. . . chronicles this change in a well-written and thoughtful book that should be read by anyone who is concerned about the evolving relatioship between medical researchers and their subjects or between doctors and their patients."
--Greg Gramelspacher, The Journal of American History
"[Rothman's] book is a fascinating effort chronicling recent changes in medical practice in the United States."
--Susan McIntosh, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
"David Rothman's challenging new book is essential reading for understanding the transformation in public and professional attitudes that recast medical decision making and launched the new discipline of bioethics. . . . Although the current throng of outsiders in a patient's room may well be a transitional stage in the history of relations between doctors and patients, this work will surely enjoy a more lasting place in the historiography of twentieth-century medicine."
--Susan E. Lederer, Isis
"For anyone wishing to become acquainted with this field, I would recommend reading [Strangers at the Bedside] for a situated, historical account."
--Kathryn Ehrich, Medical Sociology News
