Overview
There are many important questions raised in this book. The fragmentation of medical values, whether a good doctor requires as much knowledge of the person as of the disease, the claims created by a scientific medicine dependent upon the largesse of government grants, the conversion of medicine from cottage industry to entrepreneurial endeavour, all had their beginnings in medicine's Golden Age. Their heirs, today's practitioners, may have mistaken technology for their task, science for their religion, and business for their creed, but if the spirit of the physicians in this book wins out, medicine's Golden Age is yet in the future.
Full Product Details
Author: Michael A. Mello
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.572kg
ISBN: 9780299153441
ISBN 10: 0299153444
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 28 February 1999
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Michael Mello is a poet, a storyteller, a wordsmith, and, thank God, a lawyer. Dead Wrong is an incisive, probing examination of life, death, and the law, at once wickedly funny, heart-wrenchingly human, and surgically precise. This is a book written in blood. --Mike Farrell, actor and president of California Death Penalty Focus Mello separates himself from others who have written about death row. He is visceral, not cerebral . . . One of the nation's most passionate post-conviction lawyers. --Colman McCarthy, The Nation Death-penalty supporters--and opponents, for that matter--who do not read this unique insider's account of capital punishment as a capricious and nearly broken-down system will lay themselves open to the charge that they don't know what they're talking about. --Kirkus Reviews A blistering, well-annotated critique. . . . both passionate and eloquent. --Publishers Weekly starred review
"""A blistering, well-annotated critique. . . . both passionate and eloquent.""--Publishers Weekly starred review ""Death-penalty supporters--and opponents, for that matter--who do not read this unique insider's account of capital punishment as a capricious and nearly broken-down system will lay themselves open to the charge that they don't know what they're talking about.""--Kirkus Reviews ""Mello separates himself from others who have written about death row. He is visceral, not cerebral . . . One of the nation's most passionate post-conviction lawyers.""--Colman McCarthy, The Nation ""Michael Mello is a poet, a storyteller, a wordsmith, and, thank God, a lawyer. Dead Wrong is an incisive, probing examination of life, death, and the law, at once wickedly funny, heart-wrenchingly human, and surgically precise. This is a book written in blood.""--Mike Farrell, actor and president of California Death Penalty Focus"
Author Information
Michael A. Mello formerly worked full time as a capital public defender in Florida and is now professor of law at Vermont Law School. He is the author of Against the Death Penalty: The Relentless Dissents of Justices Brennan and Marshall.
