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Dark medicine [[electronic resource] ] : rationalizing unethical medical research / / edited by William R. LaFleur, Gernot Böhme, and Susumu Shimazono
Dark medicine [[electronic resource] ] : rationalizing unethical medical research / / edited by William R. LaFleur, Gernot Böhme, and Susumu Shimazono
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (282 p.)
Disciplina 174.2/8
Altri autori (Persone) LaFleurWilliam R
BöhmeGernot
ShimazonoSusumu <1948->
Collana Bioethics and the humanities
Soggetto topico Human experimentation in medicine - Moral and ethical aspects
Medicine - Research - Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics - History
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-282-07829-1
9786612078293
0-253-11680-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Rationalizing unethical medical research: taking seriously the case of Viktor von Weizsäcker / Gernot Böhme -- Medical research, morality, and history: the German journal Ethik and the limits of human experimentation / Andreas Frewer -- Experimentation on humans and informed consent: how we arrived where we are / Rolf Winau -- The silence of the scholars / Benno Müller-Hill -- The ethics of evil: the challenge and the lessons of Nazi medical experiments / Arthur L. Caplan -- Unit 731 and the human skulls discovered in 1989: physicians carrying out organized crimes / Kei-ichi Tsuneishi -- Biohazard: unit 731 in postwar Japanese politics of national "forgetfulness" / Frederick R. Dickinson -- Biological weapons: the United States and the Korean War / G. Cameron Hurst III -- Experimental injury: wound ballistics and aviation medicine in mid-century America / Susan Lindee -- Stumbling toward bioethics: human experiments policy and the early Cold War / Jonathan D. Moreno -- Toward an ethics of iatrogenesis / Renée C. Fox -- Strategies for survival versus accepting impermanence: rationalizing brain death and organ transplantation today / Tetsuo Yamaori -- The age of a "revolutionized human body" and the right to die / Yoshihiko Komatsu -- Why we must be prudent in research using human embryos: differing views of human dignity / Susumu Shimazono -- Eugenics, reproductive technologies, and the feminist dilemma in Japan / Miho Ogino -- Refusing utopia's bait: research, rationalizations, and Hans Jonas / William R. LaFleur.
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007
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Dark medicine [[electronic resource] ] : rationalizing unethical medical research / / edited by William R. LaFleur, Gernot Böhme, and Susumu Shimazono
Dark medicine [[electronic resource] ] : rationalizing unethical medical research / / edited by William R. LaFleur, Gernot Böhme, and Susumu Shimazono
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (282 p.)
Disciplina 174.2/8
Altri autori (Persone) LaFleurWilliam R
BöhmeGernot
ShimazonoSusumu <1948->
Collana Bioethics and the humanities
Soggetto topico Human experimentation in medicine - Moral and ethical aspects
Medicine - Research - Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics - History
ISBN 1-282-07829-1
9786612078293
0-253-11680-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Rationalizing unethical medical research: taking seriously the case of Viktor von Weizsäcker / Gernot Böhme -- Medical research, morality, and history: the German journal Ethik and the limits of human experimentation / Andreas Frewer -- Experimentation on humans and informed consent: how we arrived where we are / Rolf Winau -- The silence of the scholars / Benno Müller-Hill -- The ethics of evil: the challenge and the lessons of Nazi medical experiments / Arthur L. Caplan -- Unit 731 and the human skulls discovered in 1989: physicians carrying out organized crimes / Kei-ichi Tsuneishi -- Biohazard: unit 731 in postwar Japanese politics of national "forgetfulness" / Frederick R. Dickinson -- Biological weapons: the United States and the Korean War / G. Cameron Hurst III -- Experimental injury: wound ballistics and aviation medicine in mid-century America / Susan Lindee -- Stumbling toward bioethics: human experiments policy and the early Cold War / Jonathan D. Moreno -- Toward an ethics of iatrogenesis / Renée C. Fox -- Strategies for survival versus accepting impermanence: rationalizing brain death and organ transplantation today / Tetsuo Yamaori -- The age of a "revolutionized human body" and the right to die / Yoshihiko Komatsu -- Why we must be prudent in research using human embryos: differing views of human dignity / Susumu Shimazono -- Eugenics, reproductive technologies, and the feminist dilemma in Japan / Miho Ogino -- Refusing utopia's bait: research, rationalizations, and Hans Jonas / William R. LaFleur.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910778345203321
Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007
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Habitual Ethics? / / Sylvie Delacroix
Habitual Ethics? / / Sylvie Delacroix
Autore Delacroix Sylvie
Pubbl/distr/stampa London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2022
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (208 pages)
Disciplina 174.2
Soggetto topico Bioethics
Medical ethics - History
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction -- 1. What Is a Habit? -- 2. The Habitual and the Ethical: Unhappy Marriage? -- 3. Why Does 'Habitual Ethics' Matter Today? -- 4. Chapters Overview -- Part I: Habit and Individual Agency -- 1. From Facts to Norms (and Back) -- 1. Defining 'The Natural' (and the Role of Science) -- 2. The 'Motivation Problem' -- 3. 'Following a Rule' -- 2. Habit and Skill Acquisition -- 1. Skilful Coping and Skilful Action -- 2. The Structure of the Environment and Its Impact on Skill Acquisition -- 3. 'Tacit' Learning Attitude(s) -- 3. Routine and Rigidified Habits -- 1. Teleologically Indeterminate Professional Encounters -- 2. Humility and 'Sophia': Pre-conditions of Habit Plasticity? -- 3. Obstacles to Habit Plasticity in Professional Contexts -- 4. Growing Out of the Habitual -- 1. Growing Out of the Habitual: Habit v. Reason -- 2. When 'Reason' Shields Us from Normative Significance -- 5. Growing within the Habitual -- 1. Responsiveness to Reasons -- 2. Habit and the Work of Attention -- 3. Responsiveness to the Other: A Forgotten Capability? -- Part II: Collective Habits and Moral Transformations -- 6. Law and Habits -- 1. The Narrow View: The Step from 'The Pre-Legal to the Legal' -- 2. Non-Deliberative Components within a Genealogy of Legal Normativity -- 3. The Types of Habits Law May Foster -- 7. Algorithmic Habits and Social Transformations -- 1. Inferred Traits and Optimisation Endeavours -- 2. Precluded Transformations: Alienation through Reification -- 3. Ensemble Contestability -- 4. Bottom-Up Data Trusts -- Conclusion.
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Delacroix Sylvie  
London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2022
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Histoire de l'ethique medicale et infirmiere : contexte socioculturel et scientifique / / Guy Durand [and three others]
Histoire de l'ethique medicale et infirmiere : contexte socioculturel et scientifique / / Guy Durand [and three others]
Autore Guy Durand
Pubbl/distr/stampa Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2000
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (367 p.)
Disciplina 174/.2/09
Soggetto topico Medical anthropology
Medical ethics - History
Soggetto non controllato sciences infirmières
soins médicaux
soins infirmiers
éthique médicale
infirmières
anthropologie médicale
ISBN 2-7606-2875-2
979-1-03-651363-3
2-7606-2338-6
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Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione fre
Record Nr. UNINA-9910279743703321
Guy Durand  
Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2000
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Homo patiens : approaches to the patient in the ancient world / / edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger
Homo patiens : approaches to the patient in the ancient world / / edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger
Pubbl/distr/stampa Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2016]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (564 p.)
Disciplina 610.9
Collana Studies in ancient medicine
Soggetto topico Physician and patient - History
Medicine, Ancient
Medical ethics - History
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 90-04-30556-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Towards a History of the Ancient Patient’s View / Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger -- 1 “This I Suffered in the Short Space of my Life”. The Epitaph for Lucius Minicius Anthimianus (cig 3272; Peek gv 1166) / Lutz A. Graumann and Manfred Horstmanshoff -- 2 Questioning the Patient, Questioning Hippocrates: Rufus of Ephesus and the Pursuit of Knowledge / Melinda Letts -- 3 Patient Function and Physician Function in the Hippocratic Cases / Chiara Thumiger -- 4 Case History as Minority Report in the Hippocratic Epidemics 1 / John Z. Wee -- 5 Voice Pathologies and the ‘Hippocratic Triangle’ / Colin Webster -- 6 Galen’s Anxious Patients: Lypē as Anxiety Disorder / Susan P. Mattern -- 7 Experiencing Madness: Mental Patients in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Medicine / Pauline Koetschet -- 8 Interpretations of the Healer’s Touch in the Hippocratic Corpus / Jennifer Kosak -- 9 Patience for the Little Patient: The Infant in Soranus’ Gynaecia / Lesley Bolton -- 10 Compassion in Soranus’ Gynecology and Caelius Aurelianus’ On Chronic Diseases / Amber J. Porter -- 11 Galen on the Patient’s Role in Pain Diagnosis: Sensation, Consensus, and Metaphor / Courtney Roby -- 12 The Μισθάριον in the Praecepta: The Medical Fee and its Impact on the Patient / Giulia Ecca -- 13 The Practical Application of Ancient Pulse-Lore and its Influence on the Patient-Doctor Interaction / Orly Lewis -- 14 Images of Doctors and their Implements: A Visual Dialogue between the Patient and the Doctor / Patricia A. Baker -- 15 Case Histories in Late Byzantium: Reading the Patient in John Zacharias Aktouarios’ On Urines / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos -- 16 Treatment of the Man: Galen’s Preventive Medicine in the De Sanitate Tuenda / John M. Wilkins -- 17 Literary and Documentary Evidence for Lay Medical Practice in the Roman Republic and Empire / Jane Draycott -- 18 Aelius Aristides as Informed Patient and Physician / Georgia Petridou -- 19 “It may not cure you, it may not save your life, but it will help you” / Katherine D. van Schaik -- 20 Epilogue: Approaches to the History of Patients: From the Ancient World to Early Modern Europe / Michael Stolberg -- Index locorum -- Index rerum.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910511670603321
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2016]
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Homo patiens : approaches to the patient in the ancient world / / edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger
Homo patiens : approaches to the patient in the ancient world / / edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger
Pubbl/distr/stampa Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2016]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (564 p.)
Disciplina 610.9
Collana Studies in ancient medicine
Soggetto topico Physician and patient - History
Medicine, Ancient
Medical ethics - History
ISBN 90-04-30556-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Towards a History of the Ancient Patient’s View / Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger -- 1 “This I Suffered in the Short Space of my Life”. The Epitaph for Lucius Minicius Anthimianus (cig 3272; Peek gv 1166) / Lutz A. Graumann and Manfred Horstmanshoff -- 2 Questioning the Patient, Questioning Hippocrates: Rufus of Ephesus and the Pursuit of Knowledge / Melinda Letts -- 3 Patient Function and Physician Function in the Hippocratic Cases / Chiara Thumiger -- 4 Case History as Minority Report in the Hippocratic Epidemics 1 / John Z. Wee -- 5 Voice Pathologies and the ‘Hippocratic Triangle’ / Colin Webster -- 6 Galen’s Anxious Patients: Lypē as Anxiety Disorder / Susan P. Mattern -- 7 Experiencing Madness: Mental Patients in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Medicine / Pauline Koetschet -- 8 Interpretations of the Healer’s Touch in the Hippocratic Corpus / Jennifer Kosak -- 9 Patience for the Little Patient: The Infant in Soranus’ Gynaecia / Lesley Bolton -- 10 Compassion in Soranus’ Gynecology and Caelius Aurelianus’ On Chronic Diseases / Amber J. Porter -- 11 Galen on the Patient’s Role in Pain Diagnosis: Sensation, Consensus, and Metaphor / Courtney Roby -- 12 The Μισθάριον in the Praecepta: The Medical Fee and its Impact on the Patient / Giulia Ecca -- 13 The Practical Application of Ancient Pulse-Lore and its Influence on the Patient-Doctor Interaction / Orly Lewis -- 14 Images of Doctors and their Implements: A Visual Dialogue between the Patient and the Doctor / Patricia A. Baker -- 15 Case Histories in Late Byzantium: Reading the Patient in John Zacharias Aktouarios’ On Urines / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos -- 16 Treatment of the Man: Galen’s Preventive Medicine in the De Sanitate Tuenda / John M. Wilkins -- 17 Literary and Documentary Evidence for Lay Medical Practice in the Roman Republic and Empire / Jane Draycott -- 18 Aelius Aristides as Informed Patient and Physician / Georgia Petridou -- 19 “It may not cure you, it may not save your life, but it will help you” / Katherine D. van Schaik -- 20 Epilogue: Approaches to the History of Patients: From the Ancient World to Early Modern Europe / Michael Stolberg -- Index locorum -- Index rerum.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910797759403321
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2016]
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Homo patiens : approaches to the patient in the ancient world / / edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger
Homo patiens : approaches to the patient in the ancient world / / edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger
Pubbl/distr/stampa Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2016]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (564 p.)
Disciplina 610.9
Collana Studies in ancient medicine
Soggetto topico Physician and patient - History
Medicine, Ancient
Medical ethics - History
ISBN 90-04-30556-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Towards a History of the Ancient Patient’s View / Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger -- 1 “This I Suffered in the Short Space of my Life”. The Epitaph for Lucius Minicius Anthimianus (cig 3272; Peek gv 1166) / Lutz A. Graumann and Manfred Horstmanshoff -- 2 Questioning the Patient, Questioning Hippocrates: Rufus of Ephesus and the Pursuit of Knowledge / Melinda Letts -- 3 Patient Function and Physician Function in the Hippocratic Cases / Chiara Thumiger -- 4 Case History as Minority Report in the Hippocratic Epidemics 1 / John Z. Wee -- 5 Voice Pathologies and the ‘Hippocratic Triangle’ / Colin Webster -- 6 Galen’s Anxious Patients: Lypē as Anxiety Disorder / Susan P. Mattern -- 7 Experiencing Madness: Mental Patients in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Medicine / Pauline Koetschet -- 8 Interpretations of the Healer’s Touch in the Hippocratic Corpus / Jennifer Kosak -- 9 Patience for the Little Patient: The Infant in Soranus’ Gynaecia / Lesley Bolton -- 10 Compassion in Soranus’ Gynecology and Caelius Aurelianus’ On Chronic Diseases / Amber J. Porter -- 11 Galen on the Patient’s Role in Pain Diagnosis: Sensation, Consensus, and Metaphor / Courtney Roby -- 12 The Μισθάριον in the Praecepta: The Medical Fee and its Impact on the Patient / Giulia Ecca -- 13 The Practical Application of Ancient Pulse-Lore and its Influence on the Patient-Doctor Interaction / Orly Lewis -- 14 Images of Doctors and their Implements: A Visual Dialogue between the Patient and the Doctor / Patricia A. Baker -- 15 Case Histories in Late Byzantium: Reading the Patient in John Zacharias Aktouarios’ On Urines / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos -- 16 Treatment of the Man: Galen’s Preventive Medicine in the De Sanitate Tuenda / John M. Wilkins -- 17 Literary and Documentary Evidence for Lay Medical Practice in the Roman Republic and Empire / Jane Draycott -- 18 Aelius Aristides as Informed Patient and Physician / Georgia Petridou -- 19 “It may not cure you, it may not save your life, but it will help you” / Katherine D. van Schaik -- 20 Epilogue: Approaches to the History of Patients: From the Ancient World to Early Modern Europe / Michael Stolberg -- Index locorum -- Index rerum.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910818858503321
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2016]
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Making modern medical ethics : how African Americans, anti-Nazis, bureaucrats, feminists, veterans, and whistleblowing moralists created bioethics / / Robert Baker
Making modern medical ethics : how African Americans, anti-Nazis, bureaucrats, feminists, veterans, and whistleblowing moralists created bioethics / / Robert Baker
Autore Baker Robert <1937->
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2024]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (403 pages)
Disciplina 174.2
Collana Basic bioethics
Soggetto topico Medical ethics - History
Bioethics - History
Soggetto non controllato MEDICAL / Ethics
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
ISBN 0-262-37741-1
0-262-37740-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910901888103321
Baker Robert <1937->  
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2024]
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Medical ethics in the ancient world / / Paul Carrick
Medical ethics in the ancient world / / Paul Carrick
Autore Carrick Paul <1946->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Washington, District of Columbia : , : Georgetown University Press, , 2001
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (289 p.)
Disciplina 174.209
Collana Clinical Medical Ethics series
Soggetto topico Medical ethics - History
Medicine, Ancient
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-58901-861-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Notes; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; Notes; PART I: The Social and Scientific Setting; 1. THE STATUS OF THE PHYSICIAN; Types of Physicians; Egyptian Influences; Jewish Influences; The Problem of Licensure; The Relationship between Physicians and Philosophers; Discussion Questions; Notes; 2. THEORIES OF HEALTH AND DISEASE; The Hippocratic Humoral Theory; The Democritean Atomistic Theory; Plato and Aristotle; The Medical Sects; The Galenic Constitutional Theory; Discussion Questions; Notes; 3. ATTITUDES TOWARD DEATH
Divine and Chthonic Personal ImmortalityNatural Personal Dissolution; Poetic and Popular Images; Plato and Aristotle; Epicurean Insights; Summary; Discussion Questions; Notes; PART II: The Rise of Medical Ethics; 4. WHO WAS HIPPOCRATES?; Medical Ethics before Hippocrates; The Puzzle of Hippocrates' Identity; Discussion Questions; Notes; 5. THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH; The Authorship Question; The Prohibition against Surgery; The Covenant Reconsidered; The Ethical Code; Abortion and Euthanasia; The Oath's Date and Origins Reconsidered; Medical Etiquette; Summary; Discussion Questions; Notes
PART III: Abortion and Euthanasia6. THE PROBLEM OF ABORTION; Preliminary Considerations; Philosophical Perspectives; Summary; Discussion Questions; Notes; 7. THE PROBLEM OF EUTHANASIA; Preliminary Considerations; Philosophical Perspectives; Summary; Discussion Questions; Notes; 8. THE PHYSICIAN'S MORAL RESPONSIBILITY; Abortion; Euthanasia; ""Do No Harm""; Summary; Discussion Questions; Notes; CONCLUSION; Diverse Medical Ethical Perspectives; Physicians and Philosophers; Physicians and Patients; Physicians and the State; Discussion Questions; Notes; EPILOGUE; The Biomedical Revolution
Morning After/Abortion Pill: RU-486Surrogate Motherhood; Physician-Assisted Suicide; Advance Directives; Preventive Medicine; Animal Experimentation; Gene Therapy; The Hippocratic Oath Revisited; Perennial Issues; Confidentiality; Abortion and Euthanasia; Truth-Telling; Distributive Justice; Professional Commitment; Discussion Questions; Notes; Appendix A: Principles of Medical Ethics; Appendix B: A Patient's Bill of Rights; Appendix C: Declaration of Geneva; Appendix D: Code for Nurses; Appendix E: Animal Use in Biomedical Research
Appendix F: Historical Chronology: Ancient Medicine and CultureSelect Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z
Record Nr. UNINA-9910465800803321
Carrick Paul <1946->  
Washington, District of Columbia : , : Georgetown University Press, , 2001
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Medical ethics in the ancient world / / Paul Carrick
Medical ethics in the ancient world / / Paul Carrick
Autore Carrick Paul <1946->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Washington, District of Columbia : , : Georgetown University Press, , 2001
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (289 p.)
Disciplina 174.209
Collana Clinical Medical Ethics series
Soggetto topico Medical ethics - History
Medicine, Ancient
ISBN 1-58901-861-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Notes; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; Notes; PART I: The Social and Scientific Setting; 1. THE STATUS OF THE PHYSICIAN; Types of Physicians; Egyptian Influences; Jewish Influences; The Problem of Licensure; The Relationship between Physicians and Philosophers; Discussion Questions; Notes; 2. THEORIES OF HEALTH AND DISEASE; The Hippocratic Humoral Theory; The Democritean Atomistic Theory; Plato and Aristotle; The Medical Sects; The Galenic Constitutional Theory; Discussion Questions; Notes; 3. ATTITUDES TOWARD DEATH
Divine and Chthonic Personal ImmortalityNatural Personal Dissolution; Poetic and Popular Images; Plato and Aristotle; Epicurean Insights; Summary; Discussion Questions; Notes; PART II: The Rise of Medical Ethics; 4. WHO WAS HIPPOCRATES?; Medical Ethics before Hippocrates; The Puzzle of Hippocrates' Identity; Discussion Questions; Notes; 5. THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH; The Authorship Question; The Prohibition against Surgery; The Covenant Reconsidered; The Ethical Code; Abortion and Euthanasia; The Oath's Date and Origins Reconsidered; Medical Etiquette; Summary; Discussion Questions; Notes
PART III: Abortion and Euthanasia6. THE PROBLEM OF ABORTION; Preliminary Considerations; Philosophical Perspectives; Summary; Discussion Questions; Notes; 7. THE PROBLEM OF EUTHANASIA; Preliminary Considerations; Philosophical Perspectives; Summary; Discussion Questions; Notes; 8. THE PHYSICIAN'S MORAL RESPONSIBILITY; Abortion; Euthanasia; ""Do No Harm""; Summary; Discussion Questions; Notes; CONCLUSION; Diverse Medical Ethical Perspectives; Physicians and Philosophers; Physicians and Patients; Physicians and the State; Discussion Questions; Notes; EPILOGUE; The Biomedical Revolution
Morning After/Abortion Pill: RU-486Surrogate Motherhood; Physician-Assisted Suicide; Advance Directives; Preventive Medicine; Animal Experimentation; Gene Therapy; The Hippocratic Oath Revisited; Perennial Issues; Confidentiality; Abortion and Euthanasia; Truth-Telling; Distributive Justice; Professional Commitment; Discussion Questions; Notes; Appendix A: Principles of Medical Ethics; Appendix B: A Patient's Bill of Rights; Appendix C: Declaration of Geneva; Appendix D: Code for Nurses; Appendix E: Animal Use in Biomedical Research
Appendix F: Historical Chronology: Ancient Medicine and CultureSelect Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z
Record Nr. UNINA-9910798484803321
Carrick Paul <1946->  
Washington, District of Columbia : , : Georgetown University Press, , 2001
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