Dictionary of Medical Ethics

A Dictionary of Medical Ethics

TODAY both doctors and the general public are constantly being made aware of a whole series of ethical problems connected with medicine. Press. radio and television frequently highlight questions such as the provision of kidney machines, the effects of measles vaccines, or the right of a woman to seek an abortion. "'A Dictionary of Medical Ethics" seeks to provide accurate information and a san...

Religious Citations in Explaining Ethics, Medical Concepts, and Observance of the Rights of the Patients in the Medical Dictionary "Kitab al-Ma'

By studying "Kitab al-Ma'a" the enduring work by Abu Abdullah Muhammad Azdi, we find that this treatise is not just a medical encyclopedia based on medical prescriptions and the treatment of physical and mental diseases; rather, its admirable author, sometimes in the guise of a well-versed jurist, and a scholar of hadith, and a defender of the rights of the patient, created a work with  accumul...

Dictionary of medical eponyms

As U.S. drug control policy hardened to a prohibitionist stance in the wake of international control legislation and the 1914 Harrison Narcotics Act, the female drug user remained a barely visible part of the drug scene. The hard line on drugs extended into the 1950s; it was only after the modification of national policy towards drug use during the 1960s, with an acceptance of the disease view ...

Dictionary of Medical Diagnosis

Nursing ethics and medical ethics.