Ethics in medical writing

Medical ethics in a writing of Galen.

The aim of this critical analysis is to present the medical ethics of Galen in his treatise "The Best Physician is Also a Philosopher").Galen opens with the example of Hippocrates as a paradigm of his medical ethics, and continues by saying that the knowledge of the human body must be profound. In the third part of the treatise he stresses the importance of logic, precise use of language, study...

Medical Writing

While the technical details discussed in this manual pertain largely to the press of the American Medical Association, they are, however, applicable in large measure to other Journals. The value of the book as a guidebook tends to be obscured a bit by the value of the text as a joke-book, although "joke-book" is hardly the proper term to apply, for it can hardly be considered a joke when men wi...

Flexibility in Medical Writing

catheterization. Echocardiography would tend to overlook obstruction on the right side since the right ventricular outflow tract is not readily apparent and seldom evaluated under inotropic stimulation. This finding helps to further the concept that this disease involves the myocardium as a whole and it manifests itself as an obstruction where the anatomic features allow the changing size and s...

Teaching medical ethics symposium. Medical ethics in Manchester.

Manchester's multi-disciplinary approach to medical ethics combines established methods and new initiatives. There is a longstanding Medical Group and also, plans are evolving for the inclusion of medical ethics teaching in the undergraduate curriculum, the start of an MA in Health Care Ethics in October 1987 and the establishment of the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy to act as a focus wit...

Nursing ethics and medical ethics.