Trust is Not Enough: Bringing Human Rights to Medicine - Hardcover

Sheila M. Rothman David J. Rothman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590171403 ISBN 13: 9781590171400

Publisher: New York Review Books, 2007

Synopsis

Unusual book

About this title

About the Author:

David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and History at Columbia University. Sheila M. Rothman is Professor of Public Health at Columbia University. Their books written together include The Willowbrook Wars: A Decade of Struggle for Social Justice and The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement. They live in New York City.

Synopsis:

Nine essays tell different stories from different times and places in the latest collaboration by David (social medicine, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons) and Sheila (public health, Columbia U.). They discuss such topics as the international traffic in organs, the historian as expert witness, the right to health care in South Africa, an

About this edition

• Publisher: New York Review Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1590171403
• ISBN 13: 9781590171400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236