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Medical Writings |3 November 2009

The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics

Wendy Terese Grace, MS

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  • From Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Baker RB, McCullouch LB, eds. 904 pages. New York: Cambridge Univ Pr; 2009. $250.00. ISBN 9780521888790. Order at www.cambridge.org/us.
Field of medicine: Medical ethics.
Format: Hardcover.
Audience: Those interested in the crosscultural history of biomedical ethics, including bioethicists, students, and health care professionals.
Purpose: To “assist readers in understanding the deeper cultural and historical background of medical ethics” through accessible, encyclopedia-style analysis of historical and contemporary issues in medical ethics informed by cultural, political, religious, and socioeconomic perspectives.
Content: This book is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of medical ethics from both across the globe and throughout recorded history. The impact of law, religion, public policy, and sociology on the founding and refining of medical ethics is explored in the context of the cultures in which these concepts developed. The contemporary understanding of medical ethics is then applied to the problems with which the bioethics field is currently tasked, such as defining death, issues in organ transplantation, the protection of human and animal research subjects, and public health policy development.
Highlights: This book collates multiple disciplines into a single, approachable text. Eminent historians and ethicists comment on aspects of medical ethics ranging from the pedestrian (the history of medical ethics, the impact of philosophy and religion on medical ethics, medical ethics and health policy) to the exotic (medical ethics throughout the life cycle and from the practitioner's point of view in various societies)....
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Grace WT. The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics. Ann Intern Med. 2009;151:675. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-151-9-200911030-00024

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2009;151(9):675.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-151-9-200911030-00024

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