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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 May 2012
      23 December 2008
      ISBN:
      9781139195812
      9780521888790
      9781108708760
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521888790
      Dimensions:
      (279 x 215 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      2.27kg, 904 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (280 x 216 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      2.28kg, 924 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Philosophy, Medicine: General Interest, Medicine, History, Ethics, Philosophy
      Collections:
      Cambridge Histories - Global History, Cambridge Histories - Philosophy & Political Thought
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    Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, Medicine: General Interest, Medicine, History, Ethics, Philosophy
    Collections:
    Cambridge Histories - Global History, Cambridge Histories - Philosophy & Political Thought
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    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.

    Awards

    Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009

    Reviews

    '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 Source: Isis

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