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9780195369847

A Short History of Medical Ethics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195369847

  • ISBN10:

    019536984X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-07-01
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Univ. of Washington, Seattle. Presents evolution of medical ethics in Western and Eastern cultures. Shows that certain themes are constant and may be relevant to modern debates. The final chapter chronicles events in medical science and technology that transformed medical ethics into bioethics. For medical historians. Softcover, hardcover listed AP week 1999-43.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Long Tradition of Ethics in Medicine
Hellenic, Hellenistic, and Roman Medicine: Fifth Century BCE to Third Century CE
Medieval Medicine: Fifth to Fourteenth Centuries CE
Medical Ethics of India and China
Renaissance and Enlightenment: Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
British Medicine: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Ethics in American Medicine
American Medicine: Science, Competence, and Ethics
A Chronicle of Ethical Events: 1940s to 1980s
Conclusion: From Medical Ethics to Bioethics
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