TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe cambridge world history of medical ethics
AU  - Harvey J
Y1  - 2009/12/02
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2009.1768
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2371
EP  - 2375
VL  - 302
IS  - 21
N2  - 
The editors took a unique 2-step approach to present the material, embracing an innovative literary design for the project. First, rather than treating medical ethics as begun by the 18th-century English physicians Thomas Percival and John Gregory, as most medical historians have done, they enlarged the historical concepts of the subject. They insist that, when pertinent, contributors always include material from ancient Egyptian, Hindu, Babylonian, Chinese, and Sanskrit texts as well as from the Greek philosophers of the fifth through third centuries CE. Contributors reported the concerns and reservations expressed in these historical texts by patients about their physicians and their practices. Simultaneously, they reported on the various problems that contemporary physicians dealt with concerning honor, professional decorum, know-how, religious duty, jurisprudence, and prudential judgment, all of which would now assuredly be classified as problems of medical or bioethics.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.1768
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.1768
ER  -