Cross-cultural perspectives in medical ethics /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Veatch, Robert M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Jones and Bartlett, [2000]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. The Hippocratic tradition
  • The Hippocratic Oath: text, translation, and interpretation / Ludwig Edelstein
  • Declaration of Geneva / World Medical Association
  • The Florence Nightingale Pledge
  • Solemn oath of a physician of Russia
  • Ch. 2. Modifying the Hippocratic tradition
  • The oath according to Hippocrates in so far as a Christian may swear it
  • Medical ethics; or a code of institutes and precepts, adapted to the professional conduct of physicians and surgeons / Thomas Percival
  • Principles of Medical Ethics (1957) / American Medical Association
  • Toward an expanded medical ethics: the Hippocratic ethic revisited / Edmund D. Pellegrino
  • Principles of Medical Ethics (1980) / American Medical Association
  • Ch. 3. The dominant Western competitors
  • Judaism
  • The oath of Asaph / Asaph Judaeus
  • A comparison of the oaths of Hippocrates and Asaph / Shimon Glick
  • The obligation to heal in the Judaic tradition / J. David Bleich
  • Roman Catholicism
  • Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services / National Conference of Catholic Bishops
  • Protestantism
  • The patient as person / Paul Ramsey
  • Without shouting distance: Paul Ramsey and Richard McCormick on method / Lisa Sowle Cahill
  • Code, covenant, contract, or philanthropy / William F. May
  • Ch. 4. Medical ethics in liberal political philosophy
  • Liberalism: the basic concept
  • Just doctoring: medical ethics in the liberal state / Troyen A. Brennan
  • Respect for persons
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy / James Childress
  • Canterbury v. Spence / United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, 1972
  • Justice
  • Justice: a philosophical review / Allen Buchanan
  • Medical care as a right: a refutation / Robert M. Sade
  • Securing access to health care / President's Commision for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research
  • Rights-based codes
  • A Patient's Bill of Rights / American Hospital Association
  • Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with Regard to the Application of Biology and Biomedicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine / Council of Europe
  • Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities: Report to the President of the United States / Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, November 1997
  • Ch. 5. Medical ethical theories outside Western culture
  • Eastern Europe
  • The oath of Soviet physicians
  • Toward a bioethics in post-Communist Russia / Pavel D. Tichtchenko, Boris G. Yudin
  • Islam
  • Islamic code of medical professional ethics / Abdul Rahman, C. Amine, Ahmed Elkadi
  • India and Hinduism
  • Medical ethics in India / Prakash N. Desai
  • Oath of initiation / Caraka Samhita
  • Japan and Buddhism
  • The 17 Rules of Enjuin (For Disciples in Our School)
  • Buddhism, Zen, and bioethics / Kathleen Nolan
  • Confucianism, traditional and contemporary China
  • Medicine - the art of humaneness: on ethics of traditional Chinese medicine / Ren-Zong Qiu
  • Sun Szu-miao and the origins of the debate on medical ethics in China, from medical ethics in Imperial China / Paul Unschuld
  • Medical ethics and Chinese culture / Ren-Zong Qiu
  • Health ethics in Chinese law
  • Regulating medical ethics in China / Hans-Martin Sass
  • Ch. 6. African and African-American perspectives
  • African medical ethics
  • African ethical theory and the four principles / Peter Kasenene
  • African-American medical ethics
  • Toward an African-American perspective on bioethics / Annette Dula.