Historical Dictionary of Medical Ethics

by Laurence B. McCullough

Medical ethics is the disciplined study of medical morality, with two goals: critically appraising current medical morality and identifying how it should be improved. Medical morality has three components. Physicians, patients, communities, and policy makers have beliefs about what is good and bad character, and right and wrong behavior, in patient care, biomedical research, medical education, and health policy. On the basis of these beliefs, physicians,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538114283
• ISBN13: 9781538114285
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"