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343 entries match Ethics & Law [K01.750 / K01.690]
2009
#9811
The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.
"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…
2009
#12665
Papillomavirus vaccines. US Patent US7476389B1.
Frazer and Zhou invented and patented the first Papillomavirus vaccine. In 2020 it was marketed as Gardasil and Cervarix. Developed beginning in 1991, about 20 years after Blumberg and Millman's vaccine against viral …
2010
#13459
Medicine after the Holocaust: From the master race to the human genome and beyond. Edited by Sheldon Rubenfeld.
"Rubenfeld and the contributors to this collection posit that German physicians betrayed the Hippocratic Oath when they chose knowledge over wisdom, the state over the individual, a führer over God, and personal gain …
2010
#13735
The double helix and the law of evidence.
"... Kaye weaves together molecular biology, population genetics, the legal rules of evidence, and theories of statistical reasoning as he describes the struggles between prosecutors and defense counsel over the admis…
2011
#10461
Greco-Arab and Islamic herbal medicine: Traditional system, ethics, safety, efficacy, and regulatory issues.
2011
#13775
The history and future of bioethics.
2011
#13906
Barbed wire disease: British & German prisoners of war, 1914-19.
"By the time of the Armistice in 1918, around 6.5 million prisoners of war were held by the belligerents. Little has been written about these prisoners, possibly because the story is not one of unmitigated suffering a…
2012
#9330
The doctor dissected: A cultural history of the Burke and Hare murders.
2012
#10345
Death, dying, and organ transplantation: Reconstructing medical ethics at the end of life.
2012
#12676
Epidemics in context: Greek commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic tradition. Edited by Peter E. Pormann.
2012
#12805
Well-Mannered medicine: Medical ethics and etiquette in classical Ayurveda.
2013
#8001
Licensed to practice: The Supreme Court defines the American medical profession.
History of the 1889 Supreme Court case that legalized the licensing of physicians in the U.S. and the impact of that decision on the subsequent development of this nation's unique medical system.
2013
#8142
Before bioethics: A history of American medical ethics from the colonial period to the bioethics revolution.
2013
#10638
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome III, 1re partie: Pronostic. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna, Anargyros Anastasiou, and Caroline Magdelaine.
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This treatise on prognostication in acute diseases was possibly written by Hippocrates himself; or if not, by a physician close to him, sometime during the second half of the 5th century, before 410 BCE.
2014
#8131
Encyclopedia of Bioethics. 4th edition. Edited by Bruce Jennings. 6 vols.
2014
#9108
Medicine and the law in the Middle Ages. Edited by Wendy J. Turner and Sara M. Butler.
"... a dozen authors address this intersection within three themes: medical matters in law and administration of law, professionalization and regulation of medicine, and medicine and law in hagiography. The articles i…
2014
#10043
Death before dying: History, medicine, and brain death.
"Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 19…
2014
#10542
Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.
"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…
2014
#11612
Medical monopoly: Intellectual property rights and the origins of the modern pharmaceutical industry.
2014
#12709
Forensic medicine and death investigation in Medieval England.
2015
#8431
The Hippocratic Corpus: Content and context.
2015
#8724
The evolution of forensic psychiatry: History, current developments, future directions. Edited by Robert L. Sadoff.
2015
#9968
Palliative care: The 400-year quest for a good death.
This is a fine example of "you can't judge a book by its cover" since this study is outstanding from the bibliographical point of view and contains footnotes that are remarkable for their scholarly detail.
2015
#10034
Die Geschichte der Palliativmedizin: Medizinische Sterbebegleitung von 1500 bis heute.
Translated into English by Logan Kennedy and Leonhard Unglaub as A history of palliative care, 1500-1970: Concepts, practices, and ethical challenges (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017).
2015
#11368
The genealogy of a gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and race.
"Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied “genealogy” of CCR5—intellectual property, natural selection, Big and Sma…
2016
#8739
Medical ethics: Accounts of ground-breaking cases. 8th edition
2016
#9779
Murder and the making of English CSI.
2016
#10012
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome IV, 1ère partie: Epidémies I et III. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France.)
Greek text with facing French translation. Epidemics I and III, by a physician of Hippocrates' milieu, possibly by Hippocrates himself, sometime around 410 BCE
2016
#10538
Ärztliches Leben und Denken im arabischen Mittelalter. Von Johann Christoph Bürgel. Bearbeitet von Fabian Käs.
"...Investigates conditions of life and professional ethics of the Arab physicians in the Middle Ages. Based on a multitude of biographical, protreptic, deontological, and isagogic texts, Bürgel analyzes diverse aspec…
2017
#9821
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XVI: Problèmes hippocratiques. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna et Alessia Guardasole. (Collection des universités de France).
Greek text with facing French translation of 130 problems (some in the way of Hippocratic medicine and others not) compiled by an anonymous Christian author from the Byzantine period, 7th to 10th/11th century.
2017
#10231
Anti-vivisection and the profession of medicine in Britain: A social history.
2017
#11038
Hippocrate, Tome XII, 4e partie, Femmes stériles, Maladies des jeunes filles, Superfétation, Excision du foetus. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Bourbon.
Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of four gynecological treatises from the Hippocratic Collection, from c. 470-350 BCE: De sterilibus = On sterility; De virginum morbis = On disea…
2017
#11053
Imperfect pregnancies: A history of birth defects and prenatal diagnosis.
2017
#12467
Abortion law and policy around the world: In search of decriminalization.
Digital edition available from cdn1.sph.harvard.edu at this link.
2017
#12840
Reinventing Hippocrates. Edited by David Cantor.
"The name of Hippocrates has been invoked as an inspiration of medicine since antiquity, and medical practitioners have turned to Hippocrates for ethical and social standards. While most modern commentators accept tha…
2018
#10121
Digital health: Scaling healthcare to the world. Edited by Homero Rivas and Katarzyna Wac.
Probably the first book published on "digital health." "This book presents a comprehensive state-of the-art approach to digital health technologies and practices within the broad confines of healthcare practices. It p…
2018
#10622
Cesarean section: An American history of risk, technology, and consequence.
A study of the sharp increase in cesarean births (up to 25%) in the U.S. during the 2nd half of the 20th century, as a result of technologization of medicine and, consequently, obstreticians' weakened skills, the malp…
2019
#11073
The rhetoric of medicine: Lessons on professionalism from ancient Greece.
A collaboration between a classicist (Nicholson) and a neurosurgeon (Selden). The text is divided into 7 chapters covering the general topics of "body, money, competition, restriction, autonomy, mentoring, self."
2020
#12989
The body of evidence. Corpses and proofs in early modern European medicine. Edited by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia.
"When, why and how was it first believed that the corpse could reveal ‘signs’ useful for understanding the causes of death and eventually identifying those responsible for it? The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs …
2020
#13128
Maimonides, commentary on Hippocrates’ aphorisms: a new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, with critical editions of the medieval Hebrew translations by Gerrit Bos. 2 vols. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, Vols. 14.1, 14.2.)
"Hippocrates’ Aphorisms enjoyed great popularity in the ancient and medieval world and, according to Maimonides, it was Hippocrates’ most useful work as it contained aphorisms, which every physician should know by hea…
2020
#13537
Abortion in America and the law in America: Roe v. Wade to the present.
2020
#13776
The human gene editing debate.
"Provides a history of the debate about gene editing, a summary of the ethics, and a proposal for moving forward. Re-conceptualizes the historical discussion about gene editing in the context of today's widespread use…
2020
#14043