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Doctors, Honour and the Law: Medical Ethics in Imperial Germany
Andreas-Holger Maehle
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Description for Doctors, Honour and the Law: Medical Ethics in Imperial Germany
Hardcover. Medical ethics in Imperial Germany were entangled with professional, legal and social issues. This book shows how doctors' ethical decision-making was led by their notions of male honour, professional politics and a paternalistic doctor-patient relationship rather than concern for patients' interests or the right of the sick to self-determination. Num Pages: 206 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; MBDC; MBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
Medical ethics in Imperial Germany were entangled with professional, legal and social issues. This book shows how doctors' ethical decision-making was led by their notions of male honour, professional politics and a paternalistic doctor-patient relationship rather than concern for patients' interests or the right of the sick to self-determination.
Medical ethics in Imperial Germany were entangled with professional, legal and social issues. This book shows how doctors' ethical decision-making was led by their notions of male honour, professional politics and a paternalistic doctor-patient relationship rather than concern for patients' interests or the right of the sick to self-determination.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230553309
SKU
V9780230553309
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99-15
About Andreas-Holger Maehle
ANDREAS-HOLGER MAEHLE is Professor of History of Medicine and Medical Ethics at Durham University, UK, where he directs the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease. He has published widely on the history of medicine, including Drugs on Trial: Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutic Innovation in the Eighteenth Century (Rodopi 1999) and, as editor, Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics: ... Read more
Reviews for Doctors, Honour and the Law: Medical Ethics in Imperial Germany
'The book is to be praised for opening up a series of new debates for historians of medical ethics, medicine and modern Germany.' Oxford Journals.