Биомедицинская этика в древнем мире
Biomedical ethics in the ancient world

Summary/Abstract: The belief that the healing process is inseparable from moral norms, which define relations between individual and his or her surroundings, visibly reaches ages much earlier than the times of the oldest civilizations. The ancient proverb says: “To understand the present, you need to understand the past.” And although neither Chinese nor Indian, nor the Greek and Roman historians (except Galen) never thought about turn to the history of medicine, making it a separate object of research, today we have a sufficient amount of historical sources, to investigate the ancient evolution of ethical ideas related to the art of healing.

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