Table of contents : Vivian NUTTON: Beyond the Hippocratic Oath. Luis GARCIA BALLESTER: Medical Ethics in Transition in the Latin Medicine of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: New Prospects on the Physician-Patient Relationship and the Doctor's Fee. Roger FRENCH: The Medical Ethics of Gabriele de Zerbi. Andrew WEAR: Medical Ethics in Early Modern England. Ole GRELL: Conflicting Duties: Plague and the Obligations of Early Modern Physicians Towards Patients and Commonwealth in England and The Netherlands. Roger FRENCH: Ethics in the Eighteenth Century: Hoffmann in Halle. Johanna GEYER-KORDESCH: Infanticide and Medico-legal Ethics in Eighteenth Century Prussia. Andreas-Holger MAEHLE: The Ethical Discourse on Animal Experimentation, 1650-1900. Roy PORTER: Thomas Gisborne: Physicians, Christians and Gentlemen. Michael CLARK: Does a Certificate of Lunacy Affect a Patient's Ethical Status? Psychiatric Paternalism and its Critics in Victorian England.