| Description |
xi, 153 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-148) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Medical ethics -- History.
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Ethics, Medical -- history.
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| ISBN |
0195134559 (acid-free paper) |
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