Medical Ethics

Question 1

C18th BC

Answer 1

Code of Hammurabi - ancient Babylonian text setting out fees for doctors and punishments for malpractice

Question 2

C9th BC

Answer 2

Hesiod’s Pandora myth- attempt to understand aetiology of disease

Question 3

C8th BC

Answer 3

Homer mentions medicinal herbs in Iliad and Odyssey - associated with gods

Question 4

C5th BC

Answer 4

Empedocles’ theory of four elements

Hippocrates

Question 5

1803

Answer 5

Thomas Percival’s Medical Ethics published - interprofessional, “medical etiquette” not medical ethics with patients

Question 6

1858

Answer 6

Medical Act allowed punishment of “misconduct”

Question 7

1860s

Answer 7

Isaac Baker Brown removed from Obstetric Society, not due to advocation of clitorodectomy but ‘self-seeking’

Question 8

Universal smallpox vaccination

Answer 8

1853

Question 9

Contagious diseases Acts

Answer 9

1860s

Question 10

Force-feeding suffragettes

Answer 10

1913 - medical involvement in political matters

Question 11

1963

Answer 11

Institute of Medical Ethics founded

Question 12

WW2

Answer 12

camp exploitation caused medical ethics dilemmas