<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Papanikitas, Andrew</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Medicine, Patients and the Law</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">British Journal of General Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2025</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2025-07-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">323-323</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3399/bjgp25X742845</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">75</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">756</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Medicine, Patients and the Law. Margaret Brazier, Emma Cave and Rob Heywood. Manchester University Press, 2023, PB, 696pp, £39.50, 978-1526157171The title gives something away about the orientation of this book, but don’t let this put you off if you think you might take offence. The authors are quick to point out that the Hippocratic oath enjoined doctors to foremost look after their teachers and brethren. Doctors, they continue, have perennially sought to regulate their own conduct, and the involvement of philosophers, priests, and lawyers in the discussion of medical ethics and law relatively late in the history of medicine. Medical readers should not be put off by this slightly hostile angle. After all, medical law has developed the way it has because of the manifold manifest harms generated by negligence and malpractice, aided by a historic power differential between doctors and most patients, and latterly between patients and healthcare industries. …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>