A Short History of Medical Ethics
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University press
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780195134551
First sentence: The ethics of medicine in Western culture has its roots in Hellenic, Hellenistic, and Roman medicine, beginning in the fifth century BCE and extending to the third century CE.
Description: "This book provides a brief tour of the complex story of how 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."--BOOK JACKET.