The Physician as Captain of the Ship
"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...
Corporate Author: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
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Other Authors: | King, Nancy M. P. (Editor), Churchill, Larry R. (Editor), Cross, Alan W. (Editor) |
Format: | Electronic |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
1988.
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Series: | Philosophy and Medicine ;
29 |
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Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
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