Medical Ethics in Imperial China (eBook)

A Study in Historical Anthropology

Paul U. Unschuld (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
154 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-35314-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book, the first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 B.C. through the nineteenth century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known Chinese medical literature. The inclusion in addition of writings possessing ethical implications makes possible cultural comparisons with the corresponding literatures in the West.


This book, the first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 B.C. through the nineteenth century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known Chinese medical lite

Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. A Conflict over the Distribution of Medical Resources
3. Concluding Remarks
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.12.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: acupuncture • Anthropology • Buddhist Monks • China • Chinese history • chinese physicians • Codes of Ethics • comparative study • confucian scholars • Cultural Comparisons • Ethical Debates • ethical implications • health systems • historical anthropology • History • history of medicine • Medical Care • Medical Ethics • Medical literature • medical regions • medical resources • Medicine • Physicians • pre modern china • Public Health • Social Science • Western countries
• ISBN-10: 0-520-35314-5 / 0520353145
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-35314-5 / 9780520353145