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(Medical Ethics Series.) By Roger B. Dworkin. 205 pp. Bloomington, Ind., Indiana University Press, 1996. $35. ISBN 0-253-33075-0.

Providers of medical care in the United States frequently regard the law with a mixture of suspicion and bewilderment. The suspicion is undoubtedly related, at least in part, to a fear of malpractice litigation that seems to influence physicians' behavior all too often. In contrast, the bewilderment derives from uncertainty about the nature of relations among medicine, law, and ethics. In Limits: The Role of the Law in Bioethical Decision Making, Roger Dworkin clarifies — and usually criticizes — the response of the legal system to several controversial areas in medicine and bioethics.

Dworkin, a professor of law at Indiana . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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