Well-mannered medicine : medical ethics and etiquette in classical Ayurveda / Dagmar Wujastyk
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TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Description: vi, 238p. 23cmISBN: - 9780199859962
- 174.295538 WUJ
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| 174.28 KAT Experimentation with human beings : | 174.28 MAN Rethinking informed consent in bioethics / | 174.28 TOM Human experimentation and research / | 174.295538 WUJ Well-mannered medicine : | 174.295895 EVA Playing God? : | 174.3 ANA General principles of legal ethics / | 174.3 HAZ Ethics in the practice of law / |
This book explores the moral discourses on the practice of medicine in the foundational texts of Ayurveda. The classical ayurvedic treatises were composed in Sanskrit between the first and the seventh centuries CE, and later works, dating into the sixteenth century CE, are still considered strongly authoritative. As author shows, these works testify to an elaborate system of medical ethics and etiquette. Physicians looked to the ayurvedic treatises for a guide to professional conduct. Ayurvedic discourses on good medical practice depict the physician as highly-educated, skilled, moral, and well-mannered.
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