Cross Cultural Perspectives in Medical Ethics
, by Veatch, Robert M.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780867200751 | 0867200758
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/1/1989
Preface | p. xv |
Introduction | p. xvii |
The Hippocratic Tradition | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Hippocratic Oath: Text, Translation, and Interpretation | p. 3 |
Declaration of Geneva | p. 21 |
The Florence Nightingale Pledge | p. 22 |
Solemn Oath of a Physician of Russia | p. 23 |
Modifying the Hippocratic Tradition | p. 25 |
Introduction | p. 25 |
The Oath According to Hippocrates In So Far as a Christian May Swear It | p. 28 |
Medical Ethics; Or a Code of Institutes and Precepts, Adapted to the Professional Conduct of Physicians and Surgeons | p. 29 |
Principles of Medical Ethics (1957) | p. 39 |
Toward an Expanded Medical Ethics: The Hippocratic Ethic Revisited | p. 41 |
Principles of Medical Ethics (1980) | p. 53 |
The Dominant Western Competitors | p. 55 |
Introduction | p. 55 |
Judaism | p. 57 |
The Oath of Asaph | p. 57 |
A Comparison of the Oaths of Hippocrates and Asaph | p. 59 |
The Obligation to Heal in the Judaic Tradition | p. 62 |
Roman catholicism | p. 77 |
Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services | p. 77 |
Protestantism | p. 99 |
The Patient as Person | p. 99 |
Within Shouting Distance: Paul Ramsey and Richard McCormick on Method | p. 104 |
Code, Covenant, Contract, or Philanthropy | p. 116 |
Medical Ethics in Liberal Political Philosophy | p. 135 |
Introduction | p. 135 |
Liberalism: The Basic Concept | p. 137 |
Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State | p. 137 |
Respect for Persons | p. 148 |
Autonomy | p. 148 |
Autonomy | p. 148 |
Canterbury v. Spence | p. 156 |
Justice | p. 162 |
Justice: A Philosophical Review | p. 162 |
Medical Care as a Right: A Refutation | p. 179 |
Securing Access to Health Care | p. 187 |
Rights-Based Codes | p. 194 |
A Patient's Bill of Rights | p. 194 |
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 | p. 197 |
Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities: Report to the President of the United States | p. 209 |
Medical Ethical Theories Outside Western Culture | p. 217 |
Introduction | p. 217 |
Eastern Europe | p. 219 |
The Oath of Soviet Physicians | p. 219 |
Toward a Bioethics in Post-Communist Russia | p. 220 |
Islam | p. 233 |
Islamic Code of Medical Professional Ethics | p. 233 |
India and Hinduism | p. 240 |
Medical Ethics in India | p. 240 |
Oath of Initiation | p. 258 |
Japan and Buddhism | p. 260 |
The 17 Rules of Enjuin (For Disciples in Our School) | p. 260 |
Buddhism, Zen, and Bioethics | p. 262 |
Confucianism, Traditional and Contemporary China | p. 292 |
Medicine--the Art of Humaneness: On Ethics of Traditional Chinese Medicine | p. 292 |
Sun Szu-miao and the Origins of the Debate on Medical Ethics in China, From Medical Ethics in Imperial China | p. 308 |
Medical Ethics and Chinese Culture | p. 318 |
Health Ethics in Chinese Law | p. 338 |
Regulating Medical Ethics in China | p. 340 |
African and African-American Perspectives | p. 345 |
Introduction | p. 345 |
African Medical Ethics | p. 347 |
African Ethical Theory and the Four Principles | p. 347 |
African-American Medical Ethics | p. 357 |
Toward an African-American Perspective on Bioethics | p. 357 |
Index | p. 371 |
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