Unmasking Medicine
Six talks by Ian Kennedy. Reader in Law and Executive Director of the Centre of Law, Medicine and Ethics at King's College, London
4: If I Were You, Mrs B ... ' The majority of decisions taken by doctors are not technical. They are instead moral and ethical.' IAN KENNEDY argues that the principles underlying such decisions must be provided by society. that they are not simply a matter for doctors to use or reject as they see fit.
' So. put rather bluntly, what I am calling for is a wholesale re-examination of the sphere of alleged competence of the doctor.'
(Repeated: Sun on Radio 3) This lecture will appear in THE LISTENER dated 27 November