The long tradition of ethics in medicine -- Hellenic, Hellenistic, and Roman medicine : Fifth century BCE to third century CE -- Medieval medicine : Fifth to fourteenth centuries CE -- Medical ethics of India and China -- Renaissance and Enlightenment : Fourteenth to eighteenth centuries -- British medicine : Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Ethics in American medicine -- American medicine : science, competence, and ethics -- A chronicle of ethical events : 1950s to 1980s -- Conclusion : From medical ethics to bioethics.
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This survey of the origins and development of medical ethics, ranges from the Hippocratic medicine of ancient Greece through the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Enlightenment in Europe to the long history of medicine in India and China.