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Greek Philosophy, Medical Ethics, and the Influenza Vaccine

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1993
The quotation from The Epidemics indicates that early Greek physicians had the dual responsibilities of helping and not harming their patients. These responsibilities have become two of the pillars of modern medical ethics-the principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence.
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Medical Ethics and Moral Philosophy

1985
It is now my pleasure to introduce Dr Lucien Karhausen who is an officer of the Commission of the European Communities, and is Deputy Director of the Directorate of Health and Safety in Luxembourg. Dr Karhausen has an MD from Brussels University and his specialities in medicine are internal medicine and epidemiology.
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How Philosophy of Medicine Has Changed Medical Ethics

The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2006
The celebration of thirty years of publication of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy provides an opportunity to reflect on how medical ethics has evolved over that period. The reshaping of the field has occurred in no small part because of the impact of branches of philosophy other than ethics.
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Medical philosophy and medical ethics.

Medicine, health care, and philosophy, 2004
Contains fulltext : 57282.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)
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Medical Ethics Today: Its Practice and Philosophy

BMJ, 1994
BMA Ethics, Science and Information Division BMJ, £12.95, pp 374 ISBN 0-7279-0817-0 Alisdair Macyntyre in After Virtue: A Study of Moral Theory has argued from a historical perspective that moral theory is in a degenerate state. The kind of synthesis achieved by Aristotle and Aquinas could not survive the Enlightenment.
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Percival's Medical Ethics

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1986
Since its appearance in 1803, Percival'sMedical Ethicshas been the dominant influence in Anglo-American medical ethics and the paradigmatic source for the first, and subsequent, Code of the American Medical Association. Its influence is exceeded only by the Oath and Deontological books of the Hippocratic Corpus.
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On the aims of medicine: Comments on ?philosophy of medicine as the source for medical ethics?

Metamedicine, 1981
Health defined as the psychophysiological capacity to act or respond appropriately in a wide variety of situations, is enhanced by many means other than preventing and treating disease and injury. Therefore no choice of a particular medical intervention is likely to maximize health for all people with (or at risk for) a given disease.
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Philosophy of Medicine and Medical Ethics: A Phenomenological Perspective

2004
The phenomenological orientation I have taken differs from the usual derivations of the ethics of medicine from the applications of existing moral philosophies to medical practice. It departs from the many current alternative ethical theories like narrative, casuistry, caring and principlism. Each of these, however, grasps some aspect of the life-world
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Ethics Counseling: Philosophy of Medicine Counseling Instead of Medical Ethics Counseling

2010
The philosophy of medicine is a critique of the concepts and methods of medicine. Ethics Committee often only represent the enculturated views of its members, often only reflect the morals of a society. Who would qualify to be on such a committee and what should be the requirements? This is not at all clear, not even dealt with.
Barbara Maier, Warren A. Shibles†
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Medical Ethics and Moral Philosophy in an Era of Bioethics

2012
Medical ethics, the traditional professional ethic of the physician, is some 2,500 years old. Bioethics, its contemporary rival and partner, is barely half a century old. Each functions under the rubric of “ethics”; each purports to provide guidance to society on the moral uses of the unprecedented powers of modern biology. Yet, each construes “ethics”
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