TY - BOOK ID - 2744758 TI - A short history of medical ethics PY - 2000 SN - 0195134559 9780195134551 PB - New York Oxford Melbourne Oxford University press DB - UniCat KW - Medical ethics KW - Ethique médicale KW - History. KW - Histoire KW - medische praktijk KW - bio-ethiek (medische, biomedische ethiek, bio-ethische aspecten) KW - geschiedenis (historische aspecten) KW - Europa KW - Verenigde Staten KW - China KW - India KW - pratique médicale KW - bioéthique (éthique médicale, biomédicale, aspects bioéthiques) KW - histoire (aspects historiques) KW - Europe KW - Etats Unis KW - Chine KW - Inde KW - Ethique médicale KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2744758 AB - A physician says, "I have an ethical obligation never to cause the death of a patient," another responds, "My ethical obligation is to relieve pain even if the patient dies." The current argument over the role of physicians in assisting patients to die constantly refers to the ethical duties of the profession. References to the Hippocratic Oath are often heard. Many modern problems, from assisted suicide to accessible health care, raise questions about the traditional ethics of medicine and the medical profession. However, few know what the traditional ethics are and how they came into being. This book provides a brief tour of the complex story of medical ethics evolved over centuries in both Western and Eastern culture. It sets this story in the social and cultural contexts in which the work of healing was practiced and suggests that, behind the many different perceptions about the ethical duties of physicians, certain themes appear constantly, and may be relevant to modern debates. The book begins with the Hippocratic medicine of ancient Greece, moves through the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Enlightenment in Europe, and the long history of Indian 7nd Chinese medicine, ending as the problems raised modern medical science and technology challenge the settled ethics of the long tradition. ER -