Medical criminals: Physicians and white-collar offenses
- 1 June 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Justice Quarterly
- Vol. 2 (2) , 149-165
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07418828500088491
Abstract
Lawbreaking by professionals remains an understudied area in the field of white-collar crime. This article presents a review of crime in the practice of medicine, focusing on the misdeeds of physicians. The role of physician power in producing such acts is analyzed from both historical and theoretical perspectives, and a brief inventory of forms of medical wrongdoing is presented. The article also considers the ways in which formal medical training can influence later wrongdoing, and discusses issues related to the control of medical crime.Keywords
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