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.
Medical Ethics in Imperial China A Study in Historical Anthropology
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Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. A Conflict over the Distribution of Medical Resources
3. Concluding Remarks
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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