Alphonse Crespo is a libertarian Swiss orthopedic surgeon. Author of Esculape Foudroyé Les Belles Lettres 1991, ISBN 2-251-39008-1 and of numerous essays and articles such as Black Market Medicine an Ethical alternative to State Control http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/polin/polin054.pdf, Outlawing Medicine http://www.jpands.org/vol10no2/crespo.pdf or The End of Welfare and its effect on the Poorhttp://www.jpands.org/vol10no4/crespo.pdf. His writings advocate a libertarian approach to medical ethics and a full return of medicine to the free market.