A physician says, "I have an ethical obligation never to cause the death of a patient," another responds, "My ethical obligation is to relieve pain even if the

The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics provides the first global history of medical ethics.

We all rely on doctors and they go through one of the most vigorous training regimes on the planet, but it wasn't always this way. The tremendous scale of medic

The first history of American medical ethics published in more than a half century, Before Bioethics tracks the evolution of American medical ethics from coloni