Hippocratic, religious, and secular medical ethics :
the points of conflict /
Robert M. Veatch.
Washington, DC :
Georgetown University Press,
c2012.
xiii, 242 p. ;
ill ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-234) and index.
Introduction: the Hippocratic problem -- The Hippocratic oath and the ethic of hippocratism -- The Hippocratic tradition: a sporadic retreat -- The cacophony of codes in medical schools and professional associations -- The limits of professionally generated ethics -- Religious medical ethics: revealed and natural alternatives -- Secular ethics and professional ethics -- Fallibilism and the convergence hypothesis.
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Hippocrates.
Medical ethics.
Medical ethics-- Religious aspects-- Catholic Church.