Book Review: Biomedical Ethics: Humanist Perspectives of Humanism Today

August 15, 2007

Humanism has a long history, beginning around the second half of the fourteenth century and eventually leaving its mark in the modern period. This philosophical movement placed emphasis on the fundamental worth and dignity of the human and situated humans in relation to nature. Humanism is credited with being one of the values that helped advance science. (Metapsychology)