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Ethics, Medical

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Bioethics
Ethics, Professional

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Images from the collections

Images about Ethics, Medical

15 images from works
  • Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.
  • Hippocrates refusing the gifts of Artaxerxes. Engraving by Raphael Massard, 1816, after A.L. Girodet-Trioson, 1792.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.
  • A physician trying to take advantage of a young woman patient by visiting her at home while her husband is out. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
  • Conference notice on medical ethics and practice in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by the Ethiopian Medical Association, 2008.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A mesmeric physician taking advantage of his female patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.
  • Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.
  • Serment d'Hippocrate, précédé d'une notice sur les sermens en médecine / Par J.R. Duval.

Works from the collections

1,832 works

    • Books

    Morals in medicine / by Thomas J. O'Donnell.

    O'Donnell, Thomas J. (Thomas Joseph), 1918- | Date: 1956
    • Books

    Human lives : critical essays on consequentialist bioethics / edited by David S. Oderberg and Jacqueline A. Laing.

    | Date: 1997
    • Books

    Living will, living well : reflections on preparing an advance directive / M. Dianne Godkin.

    Godkin, Dianne | Date: [2008], ©2008
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    International ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving human subjects / prepared by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO).

    | Date: 1993
    • Books

    The elimination of morality : reflections on utilitarianism and bioethics / Anne Maclean.

    Maclean, Anne, 1947- | Date: 1993
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Related topics

Bioethics
Philosophy, Medical
United States
History, 20th Century
Human Experimentation
Religion and Medicine
Germany
United Kingdom
Legislation, Medical
Physicians

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