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1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) |
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Philosophy and Medicine, 0376-7418 ; 45 |
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Philosophy and medicine ; 45.
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| Contents |
One Innocent and Honorable Bribes: Medical Manners in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- Two Ethics and Dispute Behavior in the Career of Henry Bracken of Lancaster: Surgeon, Physician and Manmidwife -- Three Plutus or Hygeia? Thomas Beddoes and the Crisis of Medical Ethics in Britain at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century -- Four Common Sense and Virtue in the Scottish Moralists -- Five Natural Law and Medical Ethics in the Eighteenth Century -- Six John Gregory's Medical Ethics and Humean Sympathy -- Seven Thomas Percival and the Production of Medical Ethics -- Eight Deciphering Percival's Code -- Notes on Contributors |
| Summary |
This book offers the first wide-ranging survey of early medical ethics, primarily, but not exclusively, in the English-speaking world. Based on fresh historical research and philosophical analysis, the period covered is the ̀€long eighteenth century', culminating in the notable formal ethics of John Gregory and Thomas Percival. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between the ethical dilemmas of actual practice and the formulations of philosophically-minded physicians. The historical and philosophical roots of late Enlightenment medical-ethical theories are also examined. A second volume (1993) will examine developments in the nineteenth century |
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Philosophy (General)
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Ethics.
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Medicine -- Philosophy.
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Medicine.
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Medical ethics.
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History.
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Ethics
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Philosophy, Medical
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Medicine
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Ethics, Medical
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History
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ethics (philosophy)
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medicines (material)
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history (discipline)
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medicine (discipline)
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Ethics
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History
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Medical ethics
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Medicine
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Medicine -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Porter, Dorothy
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Porter, Roy
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| ISBN |
9789401582285 |
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9401582289 |
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