- Rutgers University Press
The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation
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- Sarah B Rodriguez
- Rutgers University Press
- Hardcover
- 9781978800960
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- Health & Fitness > Women's Health - General
- English
Book Description
It would be easy to dismiss Dr. Burt as a monstrous aberration, a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein. Yet as medical historian Sarah Rodriguez reveals, that's not the whole story. The Love Surgeon asks tough questions about Burt's heinous acts and what they reveal about the failures of the medical establishment: How was he able to perform an untested surgical procedure? Why wasn't he obliged to get informed consent from his patients? And why did it take his peers so long to take action?
The Love Surgeon is both a medical horror story and a cautionary tale about the limits of professional self-regulation.
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