@article{333983,
      author = {Veatch, Robert M.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/333983},
      title = {Patient, heal thyself : how the new medicine puts the  patient in charge /},
      publisher = {Oxford University Press,},
      abstract = {Robert Veatch, one of the founding fathers of contemporary  bioethics, sheds light on a fundamental change sweeping  through the American health care system, a change that puts  the patient in charge of treatment to an unprecedented  extent. The change is in how we think about medical  decision-making. Whereas medicine's core idea was that  medical decisions should be based on the hard facts of  science--the province of the doctor--the "new medicine"  contends that medical decisions impose value judgments.  Since physicians are not trained to make value judgments,  the pendulum has swung greatly toward the patient in making  decisions about their treatment. Veatch shows how this has  been true only for value-loaded interventions (abortion,  euthanasia, genetics) but is coming to be true for almost  every routine procedure in medicine, and uses a range of  examples to argue that this change is inevitable and a  positive trend for patients.--From publisher description.},
      recid = {333983},
      pages = {xvi, 287 p. :},
      address = {Oxford ;},
      year = {2009},
}