title: Introduction: medical bioethics.
abstract: The key concepts of modern medical bioethics can be traced back to ideas developed in the course of the history of medicine and to political concepts harkening back as far as Plato. This work reviews these historical developments and demonstrates their relevance to current bioethics.
authors.affiliation: Complutense University, Department of Public Health and History of Science, Facultad de Medicina, Madrid, Spain.
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gracia
mesh_terms: D026686:Beneficence; D001675:Bioethics / Q000266:history*; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D026706:Paternalism; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations