Medical Ethics in Imperial China: A Study in Historical Anthropology

by Paul U. Unschuld

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.

154 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1979

About the author

Paul Ulrich Unschuld