P Carrick

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Medical Ethics in Antiquity: Philosophical Perspectives on Abortion and Euthanasia (1995)Hardcover - 1995, 31 March 1985

Medical Ethics in Antiquity: Philosophical Perspectives on Abortion and Euthanasia (1995)
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Part of Series
Philosophy and Medicine
Print Length
245 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
31 Mar 1985
ISBN-10
9027718253
ISBN-13
9789027718259

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The idea of reviewing the ethical concerns of ancient medicine with an eye as to how they might instruct us about the extremely lively disputes of our own contemporary medicine is such a natural one that it surprises us to real- ize how very slow we have been to pursue it in a sustained way_ Ideologues have often seized on the very name of Hippocrates to close off debate about such matters as abortion and euthanasia - as if by appeal to a well-known and sacred authority that no informed person would care or dare to oppose_ And yet, beneath the polite fakery of such reference, we have deprived our- selves of a familiarity with the genuinely 'unsimple' variety of Greek and Roman reflections on the great questions of medical ethics. The fascination of recovering those views surely depends on one stunning truism at least: humans sicken and die; they must be cared for by those who are socially endorsed to specialize in the task; and the changes in the rounds of human life are so much the same from ancient times to our own that the disputes and agreements of the past are remarkably similar to those of our own.

Product Details

Author:
P Carrick
Book Edition:
1995
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
31 March 1985
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.75 cm
ISBN-10:
9027718253
ISBN-13:
9789027718259
Language:
English
Location:
Dordrecht
Pages:
245
Publisher:
Weight:
562.45 gm

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