Our Hands Are Tied: Legal Tensions and Medical Ethics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780865692763)

As a critical examination of the pervasive tension existing between defensive medicine and good, ethical patient care, this book investigates the impact of legalities on medical treatment. Physicians today are apprehensive about the threat of malpractice suits. Kapp explores the extent to which this fear is justified. He examines where physicians get their ideas about what the law forbids and requires, how physicians' perceptions of the law and medicine affect medical care, and whether these behavioral manifestations benefit or hurt a physician's ability to practice ethically. Kapp then suggests ways medical professionals can resolve tension caused by conflicting demands and encourage more ethical care.

Author: Marshall Kapp
ISBN-10: 0865692769
ISBN-13: 9780865692763
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 05/12/1998
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.51h x 6.48w x 0.98d