A physician says, "I have an ethical obligation never to cause the
death of a patient," another responds, "My ethical obligation is to
relieve pain even if the patient dies." The current argument over
the role of physicians in assisting patients to die constantly
refers to the ethical duties of the profession. References to the
Hippocratic Oath are often heard. Many modern problems, from
assisted suicide to accessible health care, raise questions about
the traditional ethics of medicine and the medical profession.
However, few know what the traditional ethics are and how they came
into being. This book provides a brief tour of the complex story of
medical ethics evolved over centuries in both Western and Eastern
cultures. 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. The book begins with the Hippocratic Medicine of
ancient Greece, moves throught the Middle Ages, Renaissance and
Enlightenment in Europe, and the long history of Indian and Chinese
medicine, ending as the problems raised modern medical science and
technology challenge the settled ethics of the long tradition.
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