Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics
[Book]
The Points of Conflict /
Robert M. Veatch.
Washington, DC :
Georgetown University Press,
c2012.
(Baltimore, Md. :
Project MUSE,
2015)
1 online resource (xiii, 242 p. :)
ill ;
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-- Religious aspects-- Catholic Church.