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1Institut für Theorie und Geschichte der Medizin, Münster, Germany.
NTM
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
The article tries to clarify the relation between history of medicine and medical ethics. Therefore it distinguishes between the double meaning of the German word "Geschichte", which means both: "development of events" and "story". For the first option no systematic relation between history and ethics can be reconstructed. In the second sense historical knowledge can be a readable and worth reading text for the ethical debate. Therefore the methodological professionality of the historian is required.