Ethic Codes in Medicine : Foundations and Achievements of Codification Since 1947

This text presents the results of two European/American preparatory workshops for the First World Conference on Ethics Codes in Medicine and Biotechnology.

Its aim is to stimulate research about codes and the effects of codification and other forms of implementing ethics.

It emphasizes the need for a complete collection of codes for systematic research and evaluation.

The topics covered in the text include ethics in transplantation medicine, ethics teaching in medical education, euthanasia, codes of ethics, moral values and legal norms in different contexts, ethical codes and guidelines in psychiatry, predictive genetics, use of the Hippocratic oath, cloning, medical experiments in Nazi concentration camps, the Nuremburg Code and the Genome Project.