Full Description
The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics is the first comprehensive scholarly account of the global history of medical ethics. Offering original interpretations of the field by leading bioethicists and historians of medicine, it will serve as the essential point of departure for future scholarship in the field. The book reconceptualises the history of medical ethics through the creation of new categories, including the life cycle; discourses of religion, philosophy, and bioethics; and the relationship between medical ethics and the state, which includes a historical reexamination of the ethics of apartheid, colonialism, communism, health policy, imperialism, militarism, Nazi medicine, Nazi 'medical ethics', and research ethics. Also included are the first global chronology of persons and texts; the first concise biographies of major figures in medical ethics; and the first comprehensive bibliography of the history of medical ethics. An extensive index guides readers to topics, texts, and proper names.
Contents
Part I. An Introduction to the History of Medical Ethics; Part II. A Chronology of Medical Ethics Robert B. Baker and Laurence McCullough; Part III. Discourses of Medical Ethics through the Life Cycle; Part IV. Discourses of Religion on Medical Ethics; Part V. The Discourses of Philosophy on Medical Ethics; Part VI. The Discourses of Practitioners on Medical Ethics; Part VII. The Discourses of Bioethics; Part VIII. Discourses on Medical Ethics and Society.
