Medicine and Morals in the Enlightenment: John Gregory, Thomas Percival and Benjamin Rush

Forsideomslag
Rodopi, 1997 - 247 sider
Modern medical ethics in the English-speaking world is commonly thought to derive from the medical philosophy of the Scotsman John Gregory (1725-1773) and his younger associates, the English Dissenter Thomas Percival (1740-1804) and the American Benjamin Rush (1745-1813). This book is the first extensive study of this suggestion. Dr Haakonssen shows how the three thinkers combined Francis Bacon's and the Scottish Enlightenment's ideas of the science of morals and the morals of science. She demonstrates how their medical ethics was a successful adaptation of traditional moral ideas to the dramatically changing medical world especially the voluntary hospital. In accounting for the dynamics of this process, she rejects the anachronism that modern medical ethics was a new paradigm.

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Indhold

Interpreting EighteenthCentury Medical Ethics
1
Sympathy and Contract
8
Medical Ethics and Common Sense
46
The Art and Science of Medicine
54
Duties of a Polite Profession
70
Notes
85
LELL AS A A A
89
The Duty of Public Office
94
Notes
173
46
177
Medical Ethics for a New Republic
187
Medical Science
200
Medicalized Ethics
216
Notes
226
Epilogue
235
Copyright

Medical Ethics and Medical Practice
122

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Dr Lisbeth Haakonssen was educated in philosophy and intellectual history at the University of New Brunswick and the Australian National University. She has taught philosophy and medical ethics in Australia, Canada, and the United States and is currently in the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum at Boston University.

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