Lessons on proressional ethic for physicians in Hai Thuong Lan Ong works during the renovation period and health development in Vietnam
- Author:
Nhat Cong Pham
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
medical ethic
- MeSH:
Ethics, Medical;
Education, Medical;
Medicine, Traditional
- From:Journal of Medical Research
2002;18(2):25-29
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Le Huu Trac was called Hai Thuong Lan Ong (1720-1791). He was a outstanding traditional physician of Vietnam in XVIII century. His work is “Hai Thuong y tong tam linh” includes 28 sections, 66 volumes. This book has value in various fields: medicine, literature, history and philosophy. In medicine, Hai Thuong Lan Ong work showed that he is not only a pre-eminent medical theoretician, experienced clinician but also a person who had profound ideology on professional ethic for physicians. These ideologies were introduced more or less and shoot through in his work. Now, the value of ideologies is a lesson for the development of health system in new era, in industrialization and modernization period
