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A short history of medical ethics / Albert R. Jonsen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University press, 2000.Description: xi, 153 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780195134551 (acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174/.2/09 21
LOC classification:
  • R724 .J665 2000
NLM classification:
  • W 50
Other classification:
  • 44.02
  • 08.38
Online resources:
Contents:
Ch. 1. Hellenic, hellenistic, and Roman medicine: fifth century BCE to third century CE -- Ch. 2. Medieval medicine: fifth to fourteenth centuries CE -- Ch. 3. Medical ethics of India and China -- Ch. 4. Renaissance and enlightenment: fourteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Ch. 5. British medicine: eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Ch. 6. Ethics in American medicine -- Ch. 7. American medicine: science, competence, and ethics -- Ch. 8. A chronicle of ethical events: 1940s to 1980s -- Ch. 9. Conclusion: from medical ethics to bioethics.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-148) and index.

Ch. 1. Hellenic, hellenistic, and Roman medicine: fifth century BCE to third century CE -- Ch. 2. Medieval medicine: fifth to fourteenth centuries CE -- Ch. 3. Medical ethics of India and China -- Ch. 4. Renaissance and enlightenment: fourteenth to eighteenth centuries -- Ch. 5. British medicine: eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Ch. 6. Ethics in American medicine -- Ch. 7. American medicine: science, competence, and ethics -- Ch. 8. A chronicle of ethical events: 1940s to 1980s -- Ch. 9. Conclusion: from medical ethics to bioethics.

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