Health Sciences 2610F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Normative Ethics, John Stuart Mill, Primum Non Nocere
14 Jul 2016
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Hippocratic oath: i will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury or wrongdoing. How doctors should treat patients rests on general moral principles about how a person should treat other people o. These principles derive from the more fundamental question of ethics that socrates raises in. Biomedical ethics is grounded in the study of moral philosophy. Medical ethics was first used by thomas percival o o. Expanded the hippocratic focus on the doctor-patient relationship to a broader social ethic of medicine emphasizing the professional responsibility of the physician. This idea was incorporated into the 1st version of the american medical association"s code of. Medical ethics which later was revised and called principles of medical ethics. The doctors" responsibility to the medical profession and society at large. Van rensselaer potter described bioethics as a new discipline that combines biological knowledge with knowledge of human value systems .
