The principles of professional conduct concerning the rights and duties of the physician, relations with patients and fellow practitioners, as well as actions of the physician in patient care and interpersonal relations with patient families.
    

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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.

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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).

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