Josen, Albert R. A short history of medical ethics. New York, USA : Oxford University Press, 2000. 153p. ISBN 19-513455-9   W50 J81s  2000

CONTENTS

Introduction: The Long Tradition of Ethics in Medicine - IX

1. Hellenic, Hellenistic, and Roman Medicine: Fifth Century BCE to Third Century CE - 1

2. Medieval Medicine: Fifth to Fourteenth Centuries CE - 13

3. Medical Ethics of India and China - 27

4. Renaissance and Enlightenment: Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries - 57

5. British Medicine: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - 57

6. Ethics in American Medicine - 63

7. American Medicine: Science, Competence, and Ethics - 81

8. A Chronicle of Ethical Events: 1940s to 1980 - 99

9. Conclusion: From Medical Ethics to Bioethics - 115

Notes - 121

Index - 149