Doctors and Rules: A Sociology of Professional Values - Hardcover

Review

"[Jacob's] work argues for careful, critical restoration of civilized institutions, by contrast with the calls of the consumer, enterprise, or science culture. Read it, especially if you worry about patients and clients--and doctors."

--Thomas Sherwood, The Lancet

"In the current cascade of works on ethical and legal aspects of medicine, there is the occasional contribution which goes beyond the wearisome repetition of fashionable and received ideas. Joseph Jacob has written such a book. He is to be thanked for it, and admired for his courage."

--Alexander McCall Smith, Times Higher Education Supplement

"[Jacob's] work argues for careful, critical restoration of civilized institutions, by contrast with the calls of the consumer, enterprise, or science culture. Read it, especially if you worry about patients and clients--and doctors."

--Thomas Sherwood, The Lancet

"In the current cascade of works on ethical and legal aspects of medicine, there is the occasional contribution which goes beyond the wearisome repetition of fashionable and received ideas. Joseph Jacob has written such a book. He is to be thanked for it, and admired for his courage."

--Alexander McCall Smith, Times Higher Education Supplement

-[Jacob's] work argues for careful, critical restoration of civilized institutions, by contrast with the calls of the consumer, enterprise, or science culture. Read it, especially if you worry about patients and clients--and doctors.-

--Thomas Sherwood, The Lancet

-In the current cascade of works on ethical and legal aspects of medicine, there is the occasional contribution which goes beyond the wearisome repetition of fashionable and received ideas. Joseph Jacob has written such a book. He is to be thanked for it, and admired for his courage.-

--Alexander McCall Smith, Times Higher Education Supplement

About the Author

Joseph M. Jacob is professor of law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also the author of The Republican Crown: Lawyers and the Making of the State in Twentieth Century Britain.