Medical Ethics in Imperial China(English, Hardcover, Unschuld Paul U.)

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Medical Ethics in Imperial China(English, Hardcover, Unschuld Paul U.) is written by Unschuld Paul U. and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520035437 (ISBN 10) and 9780520035430 (ISBN 13).

This book, the first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 B.C. through the nineteenth century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known Chinese medical literature. The inclusion in addition of writings possessing ethical implications makes possible cultural comparisons with the corresponding literatures in the West.