A Case of Need
Last updated October 31, 2026
A pathologist at a Boston hospital sets out to clear a respected colleague accused of performing an illegal abortion that killed the daughter of a prominent surgeon. He believes the charge is false and has little time to prove it. His investigation takes him through the city's medical establishment and its underworld, and raises hard questions about medicine, law and abortion in the 1960s. Michael Crichton first published the novel under the pen name Jeffery Hudson.
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