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A short history of medical ethics /

This survey of the origins and development of the ethics pertaining to the work of doctors, ranges from the Hippocratic medicine of ancient Greece through the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Enlightenment in Europe to the long history of medicine in India and China. Within this long, complex history, c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jonsen, Albert R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Hellenic, hellenistic, and Roman medicine: fifth century BCE to third century CE
  • Ch. 2. Medieval medicine: fifth to fourteenth centuries CE
  • Ch. 3. Medical ethics of India and China
  • Ch. 4. Renaissance and enlightenment: fourteenth to eighteenth centuries
  • Ch. 5. British medicine: eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
  • Ch. 6. Ethics in American medicine
  • Ch. 7. American medicine: science, competence, and ethics
  • Ch. 8. A chronicle of ethical events: 1940s to 1980s
  • Ch. 9. Conclusion: from medical ethics to bioethics.