Medical Ethics
Medical practitioners have always been expected to abide by certain standards of conduct and uphold certain values, more or less throughout the world. In this book, besides discussing specific ethical issues, the author ponders questions such as the right to life and the integrity of the human perso...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023. |
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| Online Access: | Full text (Wentworth users only) |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Medical Ethics Before Hippocrates
- 3. Hippocrates and Greece
- 4. Rome, Barbarians and Medieval Codes
- 5. Far East: China
- 6. Near and Middle East
- 7. Portugal, Italy, England
- 8. Statement and initial development of Medical ethics In the 19th and 20th centuries
- 9. Italy
- 10. Ethics and Professionality
- 11. U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.
- 12. Informed Consent
- 13. Medical Ethics in the World
- 14. The catholic doctor’s prayers Vatican city
- 15. Ethics In The 20th And 21st Centuries
- 16. Medical ethics and bioethics In the 20th century
- 17. Ethics Committees
- 18. Update to years 2020, 2021 and 2022, with information on COVID-19.