Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making

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.