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Medicine and Morality by Helen Kang, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Helen Kang

Current price: $89.95
Medicine and Morality by Helen Kang, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Medicine and Morality by Helen Kang, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Medicine and Morality by Helen Kang, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Helen Kang

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Medical professionals are expected to act in the interest of patients, the public, and the pursuit of medical knowledge. Their disinterested pursuit offers them credibility and authority. But what happens when doctors’ supposed impartiality comes under fire?Medicine and Morality considers the ways in which moral and scientific norms in Canadian medicine have emerged and evolved over time. Critics of biomedicine tend to discuss conflict of interest as a contemporary phenomenon – namely in relation to the damaging influence of the pharmaceutical industry on medical practice and research. But Helen Kang examines three moments in the history of the medical profession in Canada, spanning more than 150 years, when doctors’ moral and scientific authority was questioned. Kang shows that, in these moments of crisis, the profession was compelled to re-examine its priorities, strategize in order to regain credibility, and redefine what it means to be a good doctor. Medicine and Morality reveals that professional medicine defines integrity, objectivity, accountability, neutrality, and other ideals according to its social, political, historical, and economic struggles with the state, the media, and even the public. In other words, moral and scientific standards in medicine are determined in direct relation to, not in spite of, conflict of interest. | Medicine and Morality by Helen Kang, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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