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Robert M. Veatch - Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics - 9781589019461 - V9781589019461
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Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics

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Description for Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics Paperback. Where should physicians get their ethics? While the Hippocratic Oath continues to be cited by a wide array of professional associations, scholars, and medical students, the author contends that the pledge is such an offensive code of ethics that it should be summarily excised from the profession. Num Pages: 256 pages, ill. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
Where should physicians get their ethics? Professional codes such as the Hippocratic Oath claim moral authority for those in a particular field, yet according to medical ethicist Robert Veatch, these codes have little or nothing to do with how members of a guild should understand morality or make ethical decisions. While the Hippocratic Oath continues to be cited by a wide array of professional associations, scholars, and medical students, Veatch contends that the pledge is such an offensive code of ethics that it should be summarily excised from the profession. What, then, should serve as a basis for medical morality? ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781589019461
SKU
V9781589019461
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99-50

About Robert M. Veatch
Robert M. Veatch is a professor of medical ethics at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities and a former member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Association. He is the author or editor of over forty books, ... Read more

Reviews for Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics
Veatch is instantly recognizable to all specialists in the field of bioethics as the leading and long-term opponent of the effort of the Hippocratic tradition across two millennia to locate medical ethics solely within the medical guild and to assert the guild's right and duty to define - for both professionals and their patients ... It is the author's magnum ... Read more

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