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Textbook of Healthcare Ethics (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2004)
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Textbook of Healthcare Ethics (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2004)
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1 Historical Introduction INTRODUCTION This chapter is mainly about
the history of medicine and its ethics. As usually c- ceived,
history is retrograde: It is what happened yesterday, and, much as
we may try, it is what happened yesterday seen with a set of
today's eyes. Trying to understand yesterday's culture may help us
put on a pair of corrective glasses, but it fails in - tirely
correcting our vision. Contemporary cultural anthropology may
likewise help us understand the way today's events and cultural
habits shape what we call history tomorrow. Past events and the
kaleidoscopic pattern of today's cultures may help guide us into a
future that in at least some respects is ours to forge. Learning
about ethics yesterday and thinking about ethics as it expresses
itself in various cultures today can help us shape the ethics of
tomorrow: This is true whether we are speaking of that part of
social ethics called "medical" or of any other part of social
ethics. The social aspects of medical practice-how the institution
called medicine fits into and works within the greater society
called culture-shape the way its ethics ultimately must play itself
out.
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