Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: 1. Divided loyalties: harm to the profession vs. harm to the patient
2. Medical epistemology, medical authority and shifting interpretations of beneficence and non-maleficence
3. Medical harms and patients' rights: the democratization of medical morality
Part II: 4. The moral basis of medicine: why 'do no harm'?
5. Due care as a specification of the duty to 'do no harm'
6.Conceptual and ethical dimensions of medical harm
Part III: 7. From hospitalism to nosocomial infection control
8. Adverse effects of drug treatment
9. Unnecessary surgery
10. The concept of appropriateness in patient care
11. Recommendations for limiting iatrogenic harm
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.
