Description
Book SynopsisIn this book Paul Carrick charts the ancient Greek and Roman foundations of Western medical ethics. Surveying 1500 years of pre-Christian medical moral history, Carrick applies insights from ancient medical ethics to developments in contemporary medicine such as advance directives, gene therapy, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, and surrogate motherhood. He discusses such timeless issues as the social status of the physician; attitudes toward dying and death; and the relationship of medicine to philosophy, religion, and popular morality. Opinions of a wide range of ancient thinkers are consulted, including physicians, poets, philosophers, and patients. He also explores the puzzling question of Hippocrates'' identity, analyzing not only the Hippocratic Oath but also the Father of Medicine''s lesser-known works.
Complete with chapter discussion questions, illustrations, a map, and appendices of ethical codes, Medical Ethics in the Ancient World will be useful in cour
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION PART I The Social and Scientific Setting1. THE STATUS OF THE PHYSICIAN 2. THEORIES OF HEALTH AND DISEASE 3. ATTITUDES TOWARD DEATH PART II The Rise of Medical Ethics4. WHO WAS HIPPOCRATES? 5. THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH PART III Abortion and Euthanasia6. THE PROBLEM OF ABORTION7. THE PROBLEM OF EUTHANASIA 8. THE PHYSICIAN'S MORAL RESPONSIBILITY CONCLUSION EPILOGUE Appendix A: Principles of Medical Ethics Appendix B: A Patient's Bill of Rights Appendix C: Declaration of Geneva Appendix D: Code for Nurses Appendix E: Animal Use in Biomedical Research Appendix F: Historical Chronology: Ancient Medicine and Culture Select Bibliography Index
