Name Alphonse Crespo | Role Surgeon | |
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Alphonse Crespo at 2010 AAPS Annual Meeting
Alphonse Crespo (aka Luis Crespo) is a Swiss orthopedic surgeon. Founder in 2007 of Medicine & Liberty [1] a medical network dedicated to the study and advocacy of liberty, ethics & market in medical services. President of the Cercle de philosophie politique Benjamin Constant [2] at the Institut Libéral [3] a Swiss free-market think tank. Author of Esculape Foudroyé, ed. Les Belles Lettres Paris 1991 [4] and of numerous essays and articles such as Medicine: Deregulated or Dead [5], Black Market Medicine an Ethical alternative to State Control [6], Outlawing Medicine [7] or The End of Welfare and its effect on the Poor[8]. From Adam Smith to Karl Marx... and back [9] Une sieste à La Havane & autres récits obituaires" (fiction). Amazon books [10] of "La désobéissance civile" (2012) in "Libres" [11]. Le serment d'Hippocrate et l'éthique de la liberté in "Au chevet du système de santé", ed. Institut Liberal 2013.[12]. His writings advocate a libertarian approach to medical ethics and a full return of medicine to the free market.