Medical Ethics in Antiquity

Philosophical Perspectives on Abortion and Euthanasia

P. Carrick (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

245 Seiten

1985 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
Kluwer Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-90-277-1915-7 (ISBN)

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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_ Ideologues have often seized on the very name of Hippocrates to close off debate about such matters as abortion and euthanasia - as if by appeal to a well-known and sacred authority that no informed person would care or dare to oppose_ And yet, beneath the polite fakery of such reference, we have deprived our selves of a familiarity with the genuinely 'unsimple' variety of Greek and Roman reflections on the great questions of medical ethics. The fascination of recovering those views surely depends on one stunning truism at least: humans sicken and die; they must be cared for by those who are socially endorsed to specialize in the task; and the changes in the rounds of human life are so much the same from ancient times to our own that the disputes and agreements of the past are remarkably similar to those of our own.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.1985
Reihe/Serie	Philosophy and Medicine ; 18
Zusatzinfo	XXVI, 245 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
ISBN-10	90-277-1915-2 / 9027719152
ISBN-13	978-90-277-1915-7 / 9789027719157
Zustand	Neuware