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Doctors, Honour and the Law

Medical Ethics in Imperial Germany

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Andreas-Holger Maehle

    1. Durham University, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Andreas-Holger Maehle
    Pages 1-5

  3. Disciplining Doctors: Medical Courts of Honour and Professional Conduct

    • Andreas-Holger Maehle
    Pages 6-46

  4. Medical Confidentiality: The Debate on Private versus Public Interests

    • Andreas-Holger Maehle
    Pages 47-68

  5. Patient Information and Consent: Self-Determination versus Paternalism

    • Andreas-Holger Maehle
    Pages 69-94

  6. Duties and Habitus of a Doctor: The Literature on Medical Ethics

    • Andreas-Holger Maehle
    Pages 95-121

  7. Epilogue

    • Andreas-Holger Maehle
    Pages 122-130

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 131-198
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Medical ethics in Imperial Germany were entangled with professional, legal and social issues. This book shows how doctors' ethical decision-making was led by their notions of male honour, professional politics and a paternalistic doctor-patient relationship rather than concern for patients' interests or the right of the sick to self-determination.

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'The book is to be praised for opening up a series of new debates for historians of medical ethics, medicine and modern Germany.'

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Durham University, UK

    Andreas-Holger Maehle

About the author

ANDREAS-HOLGER MAEHLE is Professor of History of Medicine and Medical Ethics at Durham University, UK, where he directs the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease. He has published widely on the history of medicine, including Drugs on Trial: Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutic Innovation in the Eighteenth Century (Rodopi 1999) and, as editor, Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics: From Paternalism to Autonomy? (Ashgate 2002).

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