Culture of Death
The Assault on Medical Ethics in America
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Word Count
71,250 words, Guess
Page Count
285 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-101893554066
- ISBN-139781893554061
- Goodreads1507548
- LibraryThing333499
- WikidataQ113249193
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number00052068
- OCLC Control Number45208043
- Better World Books9781893554061
- Open LibraryOL8721564M
Classifications
- LCCR724.S57 2000
- LCCR724 .S57 2000
- LCCR 724 S57 2000
Description
"When his teenaged son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 106-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending physician for help. The doctor's response: Why bother? The boy's life was effectively over. Campbell refused to accept this death sentence. He threatened legal action and the doctor finally relented. With treatment, Christopher's temperature subsided almost immediately. Soon he regained consciousness and today he is learning to walk again." "This story is one of many Wesley J. Smith recounts in Culture of Death." "In this deeply felt but coolly argued book, he goes behind the scenes of our health care system to show how a new, self-proclaimed elite of "bioethicists" threaten patient welfare by undermining the Hippocratic Oath."--Jacket.
First Sentence
"My mother's doctor is refusing to give her antibiotics," the caller told me in an urgent voice.
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- Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America
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