Mahala Yates Stripling, PhD

Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature, in the Pedagogy in Medical Humanities series, is updated from the 2005 first edition used worldwide in all levels of education. The revisions reflect how fast science is taking us into the twenty-first century. It draws on the discipline of bioethics founded in the late 1960s and the field of literature and medicine established in the mid-1970s. Readers will study both the technical and human side of science while gaining a respect for diversity and the art of medicine. Although there are historical references all the way back to ancient times, the selections span a 200-year period from the birth of modern medicine in the nineteenth century to the present.