Add to ORKGMedical ethics in Imperial Germany were deeply entangled in professional, legal and social issues. This book shows how doctors' ethical decision-making during the Kaiserreich was guided by their notions of male honour and professional reputation and by considerations of professional politics rather than by concern for patients' interests. It illustrates how medical men adhered to a paternalistic conception of the doctor-patient relationship, despite experiencing pressures from lawyers and patients to recognize a right of the sick individual to self-determination. Initiatives like that of the Berlin psychiatrist Albert Moll, who in 1902 published a detailed account of how medical ethics could be built upon a contract relationship between doc...
For as far back as the history of the medical profession can be traced, it has been assumed that doc...
This paper focuses on intersections of medical ethics and religious commitments by charting concepti...
In Vienna, the tradition of clinical teaching began with Anton de Haen's introduction of the newly e...
Histories of medical ethics have neglected the early twentieth century, and concentrated on philosop...
With the Penal Code of 1871, confidentiality became a legal requirement for physicians, surgeons, an...
With the Penal Code of 1871, confidentiality became a legal requirement for physicians, surgeons, an...
Among patients as well as doctors it is commonly held that confidentiality has been the foundation o...
New biomedical technologies and decisions require critical debate on matters as fundamental as how a...
Desiderius Erasmus set out his views on medical ethics just over 500 years ago. Applying the charact...
This volume records observed data between 1984 and 1994 with a more formalised observational period ...
Doctors, academically educated and authorized, assert that there is more to being a real doctor than...
In 2009 the German media featured the so-called ‘patient trade’ scandal. Offending against the rules...
The disciplines of medicine, ethics and law have always shared a close and strong connection. This c...
In Britain, unlike on the continent, and the USA from the offset care and delineation of the mad was...
The question of professional identity of medical doctors is one of the main themes of not only medic...
For as far back as the history of the medical profession can be traced, it has been assumed that doc...
This paper focuses on intersections of medical ethics and religious commitments by charting concepti...
In Vienna, the tradition of clinical teaching began with Anton de Haen's introduction of the newly e...
Histories of medical ethics have neglected the early twentieth century, and concentrated on philosop...
With the Penal Code of 1871, confidentiality became a legal requirement for physicians, surgeons, an...
With the Penal Code of 1871, confidentiality became a legal requirement for physicians, surgeons, an...
Among patients as well as doctors it is commonly held that confidentiality has been the foundation o...
New biomedical technologies and decisions require critical debate on matters as fundamental as how a...
Desiderius Erasmus set out his views on medical ethics just over 500 years ago. Applying the charact...
This volume records observed data between 1984 and 1994 with a more formalised observational period ...
Doctors, academically educated and authorized, assert that there is more to being a real doctor than...
In 2009 the German media featured the so-called ‘patient trade’ scandal. Offending against the rules...
The disciplines of medicine, ethics and law have always shared a close and strong connection. This c...
In Britain, unlike on the continent, and the USA from the offset care and delineation of the mad was...
The question of professional identity of medical doctors is one of the main themes of not only medic...
For as far back as the history of the medical profession can be traced, it has been assumed that doc...
This paper focuses on intersections of medical ethics and religious commitments by charting concepti...
In Vienna, the tradition of clinical teaching began with Anton de Haen's introduction of the newly e...