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By Harvey Teff. 270 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1995. $49.95. ISBN 0-19-825578-0.

This book about English medical law presupposes some knowledge of legal concepts and terminology and of British health care, and therefore it cannot be recommended unreservedly to an American medical audience. Furthermore, it is poorly edited: cases are cited but are not discussed fully until much later in the text, and sometimes the same point is made many pages apart. When the author does cite American law, he demonstrates only a superficial understanding of it. But for all that, the book is thoughtful and extremely well documented, and it deserves the attention of American physicians.

Teff's two enemies are paternalism . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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