From Physicians’ Professional Ethos towards Medical Ethics and Bioethics - A German Perspective on Historical Experiences and Lasting Commitments

This book assembles essays by thinkers who were at the center of the German post World War II development of ethical thought in medicine. As these essays illustrate, the development of bioethics in Germany does not follow a linear line of progressiveness, but rather retains a sense of the traditional ethos of the guild.