Enforcing Your Rights Medical Ethics, Consent, Privacy, and IT

ENFORCING YOUR RIGHTS MEDICAL ETHICS, CONSENT, PRIVACY, AND IT 

The Engines of Hippocrates From the Dawn of Medicine to Medical and Pharmaceutical Informatics, by Barry Robson and O.K. Baek Copyright 2009 by John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

These cultures were also knowledgeable on anatomy, a great deal of which came not just from the injuries of war but their apparent preoccupation with sacrifice and torture. It seems that these peoples maintained control by practices of almost unparalleled cruelty. Well that may not be entirely true, but rarely in all history does it seem that it was built so fundamentally into the religious system. 

MEDICAL ETHICS AND CODE OF CONDUCT BEYOND THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH 

In 1993 Eileen Welsome, an investigative reporter from a small local newspaper in New Mexico, published a series of investigations. She claimed that there had been secret experiments conducted by the US government in which unsuspecting hospital patients had been injected with plutonium. Her report spread rapidly to the national press. The accusations extended to claims that there had been experiments involving retarded children, prisoners, and 

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