The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics

Laurence B McCullough editor Robert B Baker editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:23rd Dec '08

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The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics provides the first global history of medical ethics.

The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics, the first book of its kind, takes a global, multicultural, and interdisciplinary approach to the history of medical ethics. The book offers a chronology of major figures and texts, biographies of major figures, a comprehensive bibliography, and a history of the field itself.The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics is the first comprehensive scholarly account of the global history of medical ethics. Offering original interpretations of the field by leading bioethicists and historians of medicine, it will serve as the essential point of departure for future scholarship in the field. The book reconceptualises the history of medical ethics through the creation of new categories, including the life cycle; discourses of religion, philosophy, and bioethics; and the relationship between medical ethics and the state, which includes a historical reexamination of the ethics of apartheid, colonialism, communism, health policy, imperialism, militarism, Nazi medicine, Nazi 'medical ethics', and research ethics. Also included are the first global chronology of persons and texts; the first concise biographies of major figures in medical ethics; and the first comprehensive bibliography of the history of medical ethics. An extensive index guides readers to topics, texts, and proper names.

'I'm pleased to have this volume on my bookshelf; and when a student comes in wondering about what health practitioners in the ninth- to fourteenth-century Middle East thought about psychosomatic aspects of disease, I will know just where to look.' Kirstin Borgerson, Isis

  • Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009

ISBN: 9780521888790

Dimensions: 286mm x 224mm x 44mm

Weight: 2270g

904 pages