Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Medical ethics

Medical ethics is an applied branch of ethics which analyzes the practice of clinical medicine and related scientific research. Medical ethics is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict.

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  1. Medical Ethics

    Melvyn Bragg discusses how the medical profession should cope with the moral questions that the advancement of science and the modern application of medicine brings into it?

    16 December 1999

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    Featuring: Barry Jackson, Sheila McLean

     
  2. The Hippocratic Oath

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Hippocratic Oath, the most celebrated text in Western medicine.

    15 September 2011

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    Featuring: Vivian Nutton, Helen King, Peter Pormann