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Edited by Roy G. Spece, Jr., David S. Shimm, and Allen E. Buchanan. 453 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. $49.95. ISBN 0-19-508024-6.

In its 19 chapters, this book examines a broad set of issues involving conflicts of interest in medicine, and it does so from an even broader set of perspectives. Often a book of contributed chapters is an uncertain proposition, particularly when the authors come from very different fields. Such works often fail because the chapters are poorly chosen or badly coordinated, but this one succeeds.

The editors — a law professor, a professor of radiation oncology, and an ethicist — tie the chapters together with discussions introducing each section. In addition, many of the contributions show signs that the authors . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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