Medical Ethics in the Renaissance

by Winfried Schleiner

This book is the first comprehensive examination of medical ethics in the Renaissance. It investigates the ethical considerations, evaluations of procedures, and techniques of problem-solving in the writings of European physicians and surgeons from the mid-sixteenth through the mid-seventeenth centuries.

While much of the medical practice and literature of the Renaissance remained a continuation or reinterpretation of ancient medicine, Winfried...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878406018
• ISBN13: 9780878406012
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"