Ancient Chinese medical ethics and the four principles of biomedical ethics.

درآمدی بر تاریخ

The history of Medical ethics is as longer as the history of the medicine. In medical literature of all great civilizations such as Greek, Babylon, Egypt, Indian, Christian and Islamic, is full of ethical codes and oaths. Nevertheless the medical ethics as an academic filed appeared in 1960s. This article is a short review of medical ethics history in ancient, medieval and modern periods. In ...

اصول و موازین اخلاق پزشکی و میزان سازگاری آن با مبانی اخلاق اسلامی

 Background & Aims : Four principles of medical ethics, i.e. respect for autonomy, beneficial, non-maleficience and justice have been attributed to general judgments. They were utilized and evaluated as unquestioned ethics through which man's act are being investigated. There are many discrepancies, such as determining the realm of freedom, and the independence of the individual who do not poss...

Defending 'the four principles' approach to biomedical ethics.

تئوریهای اخلاقی

Biomedical ethics is a branch of professional or practical ethics that examine the moral aspects of profession of medicine. Every professional ethics due its issues and problems determine an especial theory and principles. In this article after referring to the three branches of ethics and describing important schools of ethical theory we have explained the six main approaches to biomedical e...

اخلاق پزشکی در «خلاصه‌الحکمه»

Adherence to ethical standards in the medical profession is one of the fundamental principles of the traditional Iranian medicine, and its significance is reflected in the words and works of founders of this school of medicine. One particularly valuable source is the esteemed work by the Iranian scholar Hakim Seyed Mohammad Hussein Aghili Khorasani Shirazi entitled “Kholasat-Al-Hekmat”, which w...