What Is Bioethics? A Historical Introduction

A Companion to Bioethics: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-11

  Kuhse, Helga ^a   Singer, Peter ^a  

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Author keywords

Ancient ethical codes expressed in form of oaths; Bioethics and Joseph Fletcher's Morals and Medicine; Developing world bioethics; Ethical problems in health care and biomedical sciences; Florence Nightingale and nursing ethics; Medical ethics long and varied history; Medical oath in Western tradition and Oath of Hippocrates; Prominence of bioethics and developments in biomedical sciences

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EID: 84885533254     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307818.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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