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Brennan Troyen, Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991, 287 pp. with index, $34.95.

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Brennan Troyen, Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991, 287 pp. with index, $34.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2021

Paul T. Menzel
Paul T. Menzel*
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Department of Philosophy, Pacific Lutheran University
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Medicolegal Reference Library
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American Journal of Law & Medicine , Volume 18 , Issue 1-2: Rationing Health Care: Social, Political and Legal Perspectives , 1992 , pp. 163 - 170
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and Boston University 1992

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References

1 TROYEN, BRENNAN, JUST DOCTORING: MEDICAL ETHICS IN THE LIBERAL STATE 23 (1991).Google Scholar

2 Canterbury v. Spence, 464 F.2d 772 (D.C. Cir. 1972); Cobbs v. Grant, 502 P.2d 1 (Cal. 1972); Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Bd. of Trustees, 154 Cal. App. 2d 560 (Cal. Ct. App. 1957); Natanson v. Kline, 350 P.2d 1093 (Kan. 1960).

3 For a more detailed discussion of some of these points, see PAUL T. MENZEL, STRONG MEDICINE: THE ETHICAL RATIONING OF HEALTH CARE 5-7, 10-15, 17-19, 144-47, 152-61 (1990).

4 For an example of an attempt, no doubt problematic, to see the rationing role of physicians as part of their fidelity to individual patients instead of seeing it as a result of balancing the needs of society and other patients against loyalty to the individual patient, see id, at 3-21.