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Codes of Medical Ethics
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Codes serve to regulate and set standards for professionals to follow, and informs society of the conduct expected of professionals [1]. The term medical ethics was not coined till 1803 when Thomas Percival wrote his eponymous book [2, 3], however the foundation of medical morality, informed by culture, philosophy and religion, was laid by oaths and treatise in the premodern era. It is therefore not unreasonable to speak of a long tradition of medical ethics prevailing in many places ove...
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- Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Encyclopedia of Islamic Bioethics
- Publication date:
- 2017-01-01
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- © Oxford University Press. This is the Accepted Manuscript version. The final version is available online from OUP at: http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t9002/e0247
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