In May 2001, the Code of Medical Ethics, KMA was enacted by Korean Medical Association, but is not proclaimed yet. First of all, newly elected president of KMA should promulgate this code to the all members of the KMA and the public. The code would be used as the ext of the bio-medical ethics education for medical students and physicians as well as a concrete guideline for judgment by the independent ethics committees. And this code is due to be revised according to the change of socio-medical environment.
Education ; Ethics ; Ethics Committees ; Ethics, Medical* ; Humans ; Judgment ; Students, Medical

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Ethics, Medical*

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Education* ; Ethics* ; Humans ; Students, Medical*

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Ethics, Medical* ; Humans

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Genome, Human* ; Humans ; Humans*

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Korea* ; Societies, Medical*

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Brain* ; Craniocerebral Trauma* ; Head* ; Humans

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Japan received the Western medicine through Portuguese, Spanish and Netherlanders. Especially Netherlanders established House of Trade in Nagasaki. Doctors from their homeland stayed there for several years for the health care of their tradesmen, and taught Japanese Western medicine (mainly surgery). By them Anatomy books written in western languages were introduced into Japan and some Japanese had the eager to identify the real structures of human body. At last Yamawaki Toyo became the first dissector of human body in Japan(1754) and he made his own dissection records. In 1774 Sukita Kenpaku translated the Anatomy book of Kulmus into the classic Chinese. From that time on Japanese translated a lot of Anatomy books in western languages and they themselves wrote Anatomy books of their own.
Anatomy/*history ; Dissection/*history ; English Abstract ; History of Medicine, 17th Cent. ; History of Medicine, 18th Cent. ; History of Medicine, 19th Cent. ; Japan ; Publishing/*history ; Translations ; Western World

The views on the life in the early modern period(the 17th and 18th centuries) with their socio-cultural backgrounds and their meanings at that time were discussed in this paper. Those views discussed here were the dualistic, mechanistic one of Rene Descartes(1596-1650), the animistic, vitalistic one of Georg Ernst Stahl(1660-1734), and the monistic, mechanistic one of Julien Offray de La Mettrie(1709-1751). Author stressed that the processes of their view formation were influenced by the wide range of the various political and religious factors as well as the scientific, medical facts and opinions at that time, and that not only the contents of the views but also their historical contexts should be pursed in the study on the medical thoughts.
English Abstract ; Europe ; History of Medicine, 17th Cent. ; History of Medicine, 18th Cent. ; Philosophy, Medical/*history ; Vitalism/*history