ABSTRACT
The last decades of the twentieth century witnessed a striking outpouring of pub lic concerns about healthcare. Many of these are noticed in Public Expectations and Physicians' Responsibilities as it considers the qualities that the public hopes to find in physicians, indeed in all healthcare practitioners. In so doing, the book draws on medical humanities. Emerging in the 1970s, this field of study explores obser vations, other than from the sciences, on the human condition, especially on its illnesses, suffering and values.
