Introduction: The Long Tradition of Ethics in Medicine:
1: Hellenic, Hellenistic, and Roman Medicine: Fifth Century BCE to
Third Century CE
2: Medieval Medicine: Fifth to Fourteenth Centuries CE
3: Medical Ethics of India and China
4: Renaissance and Enlightenment: Fourteenth to Eighteenth
Centuries
5: British Medicine: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
6: Ethics in American Medicine
7: American Medicine: Science, Competence, and Ethics
8: A Chronical of Ethical Events: 1940s to 1980s
9: Conclusion: From Medical Ethics to Bioethics
Notes
Index
"This historical analysis highlights ways in which the reflections
on the role of character, moral obligations, and the relationship
between the individual and the community (which stimulates
contemporary bioethics) have a history that reaches deep into the
past and across cultural boundaries...An important resource for a
discipline just beginning to discover its historical
roots."--Choice
"Albert Jonsen, a distiguished theoretician and practitioner of
bioethics, has written what is essentially a prehisotry of the
field...A Short History of Medical Ethics is a scholarly prologue
to the evolving world of contemporary bioethics...Not surprisingly,
A Short History of Medical Ethics is at least as useful for what it
tells us about earlier societies as it is for what it tells us
about bioethics."--New England Journal of
Medicine
"This historical analysis highlights ways in which the reflections
on the role of character, moral obligations, and the relationship
between the individual and the community (which stimulates
contemporary bioethics) have a history that reaches deep into the
past and across cultural boundaries...An important resource for a
discipline just beginning to discover its historical
roots."--Choice
"As Jonsen shows, the history of medical ethics is not short,
despite the title of his book. In about one hundred and twenty
pages he tells the story of over two thousand years of moral
discourse about medicine, covering traditions in both the East and
West. Jonsen's tour through time and cultures highlights particular
events and persons, and shows that even though there are some
cultural differences, common themes coalesce in a long tradition of
the ethics
of medicine."--Philosophy in Review
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