Medical ethics in the ancient world

Author(s)

• Carrick, Paul

Bibliographic Information

Medical ethics in the ancient world

Paul Carrick

Georgetown University Press, c2001

Note

Series title in CIP: The clinical medical ethics series

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-250) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Surveying 1500 years of pre-Christian medical moral history, this book applies insights from ancient medical ethics to developments in contemporary medicine such as advance directives, gene therapy, physician-assisted suicide, abortion and surrogate motherhood.

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Details

• NCID: BA52521393
• ISBN:
  • 0878408487
• LCCN: 00047664
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Washington, D.C.
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 266 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : R725.5
  • DC21 : 174/.2/09
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Medical ethics -- History
  • LCSH : Medicine, Ancient