Download citation well mannered medicine medical ethics and etiquette in classical ayurveda when is it right for a doctor to lie to a patient what is more important a patients health or . Well mannered medicine medical ethics and etiquette in classical ayurveda wujastyk dagmar amazoncomau books. Well mannered medicine medical ethics and etiquette in classical ayurveda by dagmar wujastyk new york oxford university press 2012 pp vi 238 s3895 dagmar wujastyks well mannered medicine is by no means just about medicine but about lying dignity risk and death. Held in great respect and used for ayurvedic training even today the early ayurvedic treatises offer many guidelines on good medical practice they define what made a physician a good physician or a patient a good patient they describe the formal procedures of medical education and lay out the rules for subsequent practice. The rewards of medical practice veracity in the doctor patient relationship ethical elisions concluding reflections dagmar wujastyk explores the moral discourses on the practice of medicine in the foundational texts of ayurveda showing how these works testify to an elaborate system of medical ethics and etiquette