Commercialism in the Clinic: Finding Balance in Medical Professionalism

There is a palpable malaise in American medicine as clinical practice veers off its moorings, swept along by a new commercialism that is displacing medical professionalism and its attendant moral obligations. Although the sociology of this phenomenon is complex and multifactorial, I argue that this...

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Main Author: Fins, Joseph J. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2007
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2007, Volume: 16, Issue: 4, Pages: 425-432
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