Doctors and Ethics: The Earlier Historical Setting of Professional Ethics

Wear, Andrew; Geyer-Kordesch, Johanna

ISBN 10: 9051835531 / ISBN 13: 9789051835533

Editore: Editions Rodopi B.V., 1993

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Medical ethics has been a constant adjunct of Western medicine from its origins in Greek times. Although the Hippocratic Oath has been intensely studied, until recently there has been very little historical work on medical ethics between the Oath and Thomas Percival's Medical Ethics of 1803, which is commonly thought of as the first treatise on modern medical ethics. This volume brings together original research which throws new light on how standards of behaviour for medical practitioners were articulated in the different religious, political and social as well as medical contexts from the classical period until the nineteenth century. Its ten essays will place the early history of medical ethics into the framework of the new social and intellectual history of medicine that has been developed in the last ten years. Codice articolo 14239

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Titolo: Doctors and Ethics: The Earlier Historical ...

Casa editrice: Editions Rodopi B.V.

Data di pubblicazione: 1993

Legatura: Couverture rigide

Condizione: Neuf

Edizione: Edition originale

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Medical ethics has been a constant adjunct of Western medicine from its origins in Greek times. Although theHippocratic Oath has been intensely studied, until recently there has been very little historical work on medical ethics between theOath and Thomas Percival's Medical Ethics of 1803, which is commonly thought of as the first treatise on modern medical ethics. This volume brings together original research which throws new light on how standards of behaviour for medical practitioners were articulated in the different religious, political and social as well as medical contexts from the classical period until the nineteenth century. Its ten essays will place the early history of medical ethics into the framework of the new social and intellectual history of medicine that has been developed in the last ten years.

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