β Scribed by David Rothman
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Like Rothmanβs earlier books, "The Discovery of the Asylum" and "Conscience and Convenience", this study of the transformation of the relationship between doctors and patients from the mid-Sixties to the mid-Seventies has acquired the status of a minor classic.The author has added a new epilogue on more recent changes in the practice of medicine and on responses to his portrayal of the earlier, epochal changes that are the subject of the book.
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