Medical Ethics in Antiquity Philosophical Perspectives on Abortion and Euthanasia
The idea of reviewing the ethical concerns of ancient medicine with an eye as to how they might instruct us about the extremely lively disputes of our own contemporary medicine is such a natural one that it surprises us to real ize how very slow we have been to pursue it in a sustained way_ Ideolog...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1995, 1995
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1995 |
| Series: | Philosophy and Medicine
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- One/ The Social and Scientific Setting
- I/ The Status of the Physician
- II/ Theories of Health and Disease
- III/ Attitudes Toward Death
- Two/ The Rise of Medical Ethics
- IV/ Who was Hippocrates?
- V/ The Hippocratic Oath
- Three/ Abortion and Euthanasia
- VI/ The Problem of Abortion
- VII/ The Problem of Euthanasia
- VIII/ The Physician’s Moral Responsibility
- IX/ Conclusion
- X/ Epilogue
- Appendices
- Appendix A
- Principles of Medical Ethics
- Appendix B
- A Patient’s Bill of Rights
- Appendix C
- Declaration of Geneva
- Notes
- Select Bibliography