Medical Ethics: Continuing Education Undergraduate Series Textbook

Author: Guo Zhaojiang
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: Medical ethics is an interdisciplinary or marginal discipline between medicine and ethics, as well as the specific application of the fundamental principles of ethics in the medical field, belonging to applied ethics. Medical ethics is a restricted elective course for public affairs management majors. This course requires students to master the basic theoretical knowledge of medical ethics and apply it to the practice of health management and the development of life sciences, in order to cultivate and improve their professional moral qualities and the ability to analyze and solve ethical issues. This course requires foundational knowledge in disciplines such as medicine and health service management. Prerequisites include public relations, public administration, health statistics, and epidemiology, among others. This course is closely related to medical psychology, health law, and social medicine, serving as parallel courses that can complement each other.
This textbook comprehensively discusses the formation and development of medical ethics, its principles, norms, and categories, as well as the moral regulation in clinical care, nursing, preventive health care, medical research, and health management, in line with the requirements of medical ethics education under China's socialist market economy system and modern medical model. It also addresses some hot issues currently emerging in bioethics. The content is comprehensive and detailed, suitable for use in continuing undergraduate education and open teaching. It can also be referenced by relevant personnel.