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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.

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 mesmeric physician taking advantage of his female patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.

Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.

A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.

Responsible conduct of research / Adil E. Shamoo and David B. Resnik.

Medical education, character, and conduct : introductory addresses, delivered to students of medicine in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1855-1866-1882 / by W.T. Gairdner.

Science secrecy.

Bioethics in complexity : foundations and evolutions / editors, Sergio De Risio, Franco F. Orsucci.

Le diagnostic anténatal : quels enjeux? / sous la direction de Catherine Perrotin ; Centre de BioEthique, Université Catholique de Lyon, Fondation Marcel Merieux.

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Responsible conduct of research / Adil E. Shamoo and David B. Resnik.

Medical education, character, and conduct : introductory addresses, delivered to students of medicine in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1855-1866-1882 / by W.T. Gairdner.

Science secrecy.

Bioethics in complexity : foundations and evolutions / editors, Sergio De Risio, Franco F. Orsucci.

Le diagnostic anténatal : quels enjeux? / sous la direction de Catherine Perrotin ; Centre de BioEthique, Université Catholique de Lyon, Fondation Marcel Merieux.