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Medical Ethics in Imperial China: A Study in Historical Anthropology (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)
Medical Ethics in Imperial China A Study in Historical Anthropology - Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Author:Paul U. Unschuld 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 possibl... more »e cultural comparisons with the corresponding literatures in the West.« less