Diminished Lives and Malpractice: Courts Stalled in Transition
- 1 June 1982
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Law, Medicine and Health Care
- Vol. 10 (3) , 100-114
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.1982.tb00300.x
Abstract
Medicine is still largely a pre-Darwin, pre-Newton enterprise…. We do not yet understand the underlying mechanisms of the major illnesses which plague humanity, and therefore much of what is done in the treatment of illness must still be empirical, trial and error therapy. We are compelled by our limitations to resort to shoring things up, applying halfway technology, trying to fix things after the fact.1Keywords
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