Steven H. Miles, University of Minnesota geriatrician, regularly and courageously brings ethical questions about health care into the political arena. One might even say he believes the practice of medicine is a political act. In 1991, when disputes were raging about whether physicians could withhold treatment from patients demanding interventions their physicians thought futil (...)
November 17, 2006
Books
Malpractice
Oath BetrayedTorture, Medical Complicity, and the War on TerrorSteven H. MilesRandom House, $23.95, 220 pp.
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