Issues in the History of Medicine in Modern Society

Medical changes from 1945 - Reclaiming professional virtues

1. The Nuremberg Code 1947 after the Doctors' Trial  or "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals" (NMT)
2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights                                             
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Historical overview of emergence of bioethics in 1960s and prerequisites

1. Hippocratic ethics in a modern context. Hippocratic Oath
2. Medical Ethics as corporative ethics of medics. 
3. Sanctity of life. Immanuel Cant and deontology.
4. Paternalism vs. autonomy. Autonomy and human rights.
   
5. Consent, communication, advance directives.