Ethics, Medical - History
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Legal controls of the medical profession.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The authors, after a brief historical review of the theme, review the articles published in the last year. The purpose is to verify how the field has moved on during this period, as a constant increase of legal and social controls ... Read more...

Hippocrates of Kos, the father of clinical medicine, and Asclepiades of Bithynia, the father of molecular medicine. Review.

29 Jun 2009 Hippocrates of Kos (460-377 Before Common Era, BCE) is universally recognized as the father of modern medicine, which is based on observation of clinical signs and rational conclusions, and does not rely on religious or magical beliefs. Hippocratic ... Read more...

Honor, brotherhood, and the corporate ethos of London's Barber-Surgeons' Company, 1570-1640.

16 Mar 2009 As the largest and most civically active body of medical practitioners in the late Tudor and early Stuart period, surgeons played a vital role in London's urban landscape, but remained precariously vulnerable to abasement due to the regular contact ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Ethics, Medical - History'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Legal controls of the medical profession. 30 Aug 2009
• Hippocrates of Kos, the father of clinical medicine, and Asclepiades of Bithynia, the father of molecular medicine. Review. 29 Jun 2009
• Medicine and the arts. Ethics [excerpt] by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Commentary. 29 Jun 2009
• The White Coat Ceremony: a tribute to the humanism of Arnold P. Gold. 13 May 2009
• Medicine and the arts. The Horse and Buggy Doctor [excerpts] by Arthur E. Hertzler. Commentary. 29 Apr 2009
• Brain gain: the underground world of neuroenhancing drugs. 25 Apr 2009
• Vulnerability and ethics: considering our Cartesian hangover. 9 Apr 2009
• Honor, brotherhood, and the corporate ethos of London's Barber-Surgeons' Company, 1570-1640. 16 Mar 2009
• Hermann Stieve's clinical-anatomical research on executed women during the "Third Reich". 27 Feb 2009
• The travails and triumphs of publishing the first global history of medical ethics. The Crambridge World History of Medical Ethics examines the evolution of medical ethics from the 12th century to today. 27 Feb 2009
• Being conscious of their burden: severe brain injury and the two cultures challenge. 27 Feb 2009
• In search of the soul in science: medical ethics' appropriation of philosophy of science in the 1970s. 30 Dec 2008
• Keeping modern in medicine: pharmaceutical promotion and physician education in postwar America. 30 Dec 2008
• [Sulfonamide-research on human subjects in Nazi concentration camps: a critical re-evaluation of the epistemological and ethical dimension] 30 Dec 2008
• Prejudice and the medical profession: a five-year update. 30 Dec 2008
• [The doctor-patient relationship in the novel Thibault.] 29 Nov 2008
• Contemporary medical ethics: an overview from Iran. 29 Nov 2008
• [A comparative study on the ethics of Western and traditional Chinese medicine] 29 Sep 2008
• Nicolae C. Paulescu--scientist and politician. 29 Jun 2008
• A brief history of medicine's Hippocratic Oath, or how times have changed. 29 Jun 2008

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Technical information about 'Ethics, Medical'

Definition: The principles of professional conduct concerning the rights and duties of the physician, relations with patients and fellow practitioners, as well as actions of the physician in patient care and interpersonal relations with patient families.

Descriptor UI: D004992

Alternative terms: Ethics, Medical; Medical Ethics;

Related Mesh Headings: Bioethics;

Allowable Qualifiers: education; history;

Tree Number: K01.316.333.132.750; N05.350.340.162.500;

Technical Notes: restrict to ethics in relation to the physician; BIOETHICS and BIOETHICAL ISSUES are also available; specify geographic term if pertinent; DF: ETHICS MED