00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-8027390931311304336 Buklod 20241016140811.0 a ||| u ta 241016s2022 enk r b 001 0 eng d 9780199659425 (pbk.) 22172427 DLAW eng eng KD 2945 A68 O94 2022 Oxford handbook of medical ethics and law Anna Smajdor, Jonathan Herring, Robert Wheeler. Oxford Oxford University Press 2022. xiii, 366 pages 19 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Oxford handbooks "The concise guide to applying ethical and legal principles to clinical practice." Includes bibliographical references and index. "Doctors have been concerned with ethics since the earliest days of medical practice. Traditionally, medical practitioners have been expected to be motivated by a desire to help their patients. Ethical codes and systems, such as the Hippocratic Oath, have emphasised this. During the latter half of the 20th century, advances in medical science, in conjunction with social and political changes, meant that the accepted conventions of the doctor/patient relationship were increasingly being questioned. After the Nuremberg Trials, in which the crimes of Nazi doctors, among others, were ex-posed, it became clear that doctors cannot be assumed to be good simply by virtue of their profession. Not only this, but doctors who transgress moral boundaries can harm people in the most appalling ways"-- Provided by publisher. Law and ethics. Medical ethics. Medical laws and legislation Great Britain. Physicians Malpractice. Herring, Jonathan editor. Smajdor, Anna editor. Wheeler, Robert (Consultant neonatal and pediatric surgeon) editor. FO UPD DLAW KD 2945 A68 O94 2022 Book