Doctors, honour, and the law
Subtitle: medical ethics in imperial Germany
By: Andreas-Holger Maehle.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780230553309
Subjects: Medical ethics -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Physician and patient -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Courts of honor -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Disciplining doctors : medical courts of honour and professional conduct; title: Medical confidentiality : the debate on private versus public interests; title: Patient information and consent : self-determination versus paternalism; title: Duties and habitus of a doctor : the literature on medical ethics.