Reviews for Medical ethics and human life

The average rating for Medical ethics and human life based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-09-20 00:00:00 Edward Thompson 'Females should be treated with the utmost delicacy. To neglect or to sport with their feelings is cruelty; and every wound thus inflicted tends to produce a callousness of mind, a contempt of decorum, and an insensibility to modesty and virtue.' (p. 7) It took me six years of postgraduate school, social self-ostracism, and persistence in order to become a medical doctor. The current ease I have with the practice of medicine, however, is primarily because of doctors like Percival and Osler. The author of this book, Dr. Thomas Percival, helped to establish medicine as a profession - but not a mercenary one. More importantly, however, he wrote a set of guidelines that he hoped would be adopted by practicing physicians. This book is his code of ethics in medical practice. Do you know what he used in order to establish this code? It's simple. He based ethics on human empathy, respect, and understanding. The book has endured as a classic of medicine because every person, whether doctor or patient, wishes to be respected, understood, and listened to. Every one of us is selfish, but every one of us is also human.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-02-17 00:00:00 Joseph Matthews Unfortunately, the edition I have (Yale University Medical Historical Library, 1987) doesn't contain the Appendices that I wanted to consult. As a consequence I was forced to use the digital copy that can be found in googlebooks.