The Cambridge world history of medical ethics / edited by Robert B. Baker and Laurence B. McCullough.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Medical ethics -- History.

Part I. An introduction to the history of medical ethics

1. What is the history of medical ethics?

2. Bioethics and history

Part II. A chronology of medical ethics

Part III. Discourses of medical ethics through the life cycle

3. Medical ethics through the life cycle in Hindu India

4. Medical ethics through the life cycle in Buddhist India

5. Medical ethics through the life cycle in China

6. Medical ethics through the life cycle in Japan

7. Medical ethics through the life cycle in Europe and the Americas

8. Medical ethics through the life cycle in the Islamic Middle East

Part IV. Discourses of religion on medical ethics

9. The discourses of Hindu medical ethics

10. The discourses of Buddhist medical ethics

11. The discourses of Confucian medical ethics

12. The discourses of early Christian medical ethics

13. The discourses of Orthodox Christian medical ethics

14. The discourses of Roman Catholic medical ethics

15. The discourses of Protestant medical ethics

16. The discourses of Jewish medical ethics

17. The discourses of Islamic medical ethics

Part V. The discourses of philosophy on medical ethics

18. The discourses of philosophical medical ethics

Part VI. The discourses of practitioners on medical ethics

19. The discourses of practitioners in Africa

20. The discourses of practitioners in India

21. The discourses of practitioners in China

22. The discourses of practitioners in Japan

23. The discourses of practitioners in ancient Europe

24. The discourses of European practitioners in the tradition of the Hippocratic texts

25. The discourses of practitioners in ninth- to fourteenth-century Middle East

26. The discourses of practitioners in medieval and renaissance Europe

27. The discourses of practitioners in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe

28. The discourses of practitioners in eighteenth-century France and Germany

29. The discourses of practitioners in eighteenth-century Spain

30. The discourses of practitioners in eighteenth-century Britain

31. The discourses of practitioners in eighteenth-century North America

32. The discourses of practitioners in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France

33. The discourses of practitioners in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spain

34. The discourses of practitioners in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany

35. The discourses of practitioners in eighteenth- to twentieth-century Russia and Soviet Union

36. The discourses of practitioners in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and the United States

37. The discourses of practitioners in the modern and contemporary Islamic Middle East

Part VII. The discourses of bioethics

38. The discourses of bioethics in the United States

39. The discourses of bioethics in United Kingdom

40. The discourses of bioethics in Western Europe

41. The discourses of bioethics in post-communist Eastern Europe

42. The discourses of bioethics in Latin America

43. The discourses of bioethics in East Asia

44. The discourses of bioethics in South Asia

45. The discourses of bioethics in sub-Saharan Africa

Part VIII. Discourses on medical ethics and society

A. Ethical and legal regulation of medical practice and research

46. The medical market place, the patient, and the absence of medical ethics in early modern Europe and North America

47. The legal and quasilegal regulation of practitioners and practice in the United States

48. The ethics of experimenting on animal subjects

49. The ethics of experimenting on human subjects

50. The historical development of the international codes of ethics for human subjects research

51. International ethics of human subjects research in the late twentieth century

B. Medical ethics, imperialism, and the nation-state

52. Colonialism, imperialism, and the history of Latin American medical ethics

53. Japanese doctors' experimentation, 1932-1945, and medical ethics

54. Medical ethics and Nazism

55. Medical ethics and communism in the Soviet Union

56. Medical ethics and communism in Eastern Europe

57. The ethics of military medical research in the United States during the Cold War

58. Medical ethics and the military in South Africa during apartheid : judging history

C. Medical ethics and health policy

59. Making distinctions natural : the science of social categorization in the United States in the twentieth century

60. History of public health ethics in the United States

61. Ethics and health policy in the United Kingdom and the United States : legislation and regulation

62. Ethical issues in organ transplantation in the United States

63. Defining and redefining life and death.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521888790

9781139195812

xxviii, 876 p. ; 29 cm