David Rothman gives us a brilliant, finely etched study of medical practice today

Acknowledgments, Introduction: Making the Invisible Visible, 1. The Nobility of the Material, 2. Research at War, 3. The Guilded Age of Research, 4. The Doctor as Whistle-Blower, 5. New Rules for the Laboratory, 6. Bedside Ethics, 7. The Doctor as Stranger, 8. Life Through Death, 9. Commissioning Ethics, 10. No One to Trust, 11. New Rules for the Bedside, Epilogue: The Price of Success, Afterword, Appendix A, Notes, Index