By Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma. 205 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. $35. ISBN 0-19-508289-3.
Pellegrino and Thomasma are arguably among the most influentialauthors now writing about the moral nature of physicianhood,which they call "the central crisis in medicine today -- theconfusion about who and what physicians are, and what they shouldbe." They do so even as public attention focuses exclusivelyon the economics of health care. This book is the third theyhave written together on the philosophical and ethical basesof medical practice. In A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice(New York: Oxford University Press, 1981), they called for theestablishment of a moral policy regarding American health care. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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