Doctors and the Law Free

Author: Professor James C. Mohr
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0801853982
Category: Medical

Doctors and the Law: Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America

After the American Revolution, the new republic's most prominent physicians envisioned a society in which doctors, lawyers, and the state might work together to ensure public well-being and a high standard of justice. Download Doctors and the Law medical books for free.
But as James C. Mohr reveals in Doctors and the Law, what appeared to be fertile ground for cooperative civic service soon became a battlefield, as the relationship between doctors and the legal system became increasingly adversarial.Mohr provides a graceful and lucid account of this prfound shift from civic republicanism to marketplace professionalism. He shows how, by 1900, doctors and lawyers were at each other's throats, medical jurisprudence had disappeared as a serious field of study for American physicians, the subject o Get Doctors and the Law our bestseller medical books.

Doctors and the Law Free

He shows how, by 1900, doctors and lawyers were at each other's throats, medical jurisprudence had disappeared as a serious field of study for American physicians, the subject o

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