Underpinnings of Medical Ethics

Underpinnings of Medical Ethics

emeritus professor of medicine and former head of medical genetics at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; a retired research biochemist in the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Institute on Aging; and a psychiatrist in private practice who is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. Their background is therefore medical rather than philosophical, and th...

Underpinnings of Medical Ethics Edmond

emeritus professor of medicine and former head of medical genetics at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; a retired research biochemist in the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Institute on Aging; and a psychiatrist in private practice who is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. Their background is therefore medical rather than philosophical, and th...

Nursing ethics and medical ethics.

Handbook of medical ethics. Medical ethics--a social responsibility.

The above approaches certainly have their place but also have their limitations. The repeated invocation of archival material tends to create an impression that ethical edicts are merely of historical significance and are irrelevant today. Some of the historical texts on medical ethics are based on morality, at times even bordering on the spiritual or the religious. This could be a hindrance to...

Medical Ethics

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