عنوان

John Gregory and the invention of professional medical ethics and profession of medicine /

(Number (ISBN

0585271623

(Number (ISBN

9780585271620

Erroneous ISBN

0792349172

Erroneous ISBN

9780792349174

Number

b782416

Title Proper

John Gregory and the invention of professional medical ethics and profession of medicine /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Laurence B. McCullough.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Boston :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Kluwer Academic,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©1998.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xv, 347 pages)

Series Title

Philosophy and medicine ;

Volume Designation

v. 56

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-331) and index.

Text of Note

Front Matter; An Introduction to John Gregory'S Medical Ethics; John Gregory's Life and Times: An Intellectual History; John Gregory's Medical Ethics; Assessing Gregory's Medical Ethics; Back Matter.

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Text of Note

This is the first book-length scholarly study of the medical ethics of John Gregory (1724-1773), who wrote the first English-language bioethics. This book shows how Gregory invented professional medical ethics and, in the process, the concept of the profession of medicine as a fiduciary profession. Making extensive use of manuscript and other primary sources, the book provides the first complete intellectual biography of Gregory, placing his medical ethics in its eighteenth-century contexts of Scottish Enlightenment history and culture, Baconian science and philosophy of medicine, medical practice, the feminine and feminist philosophy of the Bluestocking Circle, and moral sense philosophy, particularly David Hume's concept of sympathy. A detailed examination of his texts on medical ethics is followed by a consideration of the implications of Gregory's medical ethics for contemporary bioethics, especially feminist bioethics. This book is intended for scholars, teachers, and students of bioethics, medical ethics, the history of medicine, and the history of medical ethics.

Title

John Gregory and the invention of professional medical ethics and profession of medicine.

International Standard Book Number

0792349172

Gregory, John,1724-1773.

Gregory, John,1724-1773

Gregory, John,1724-1773

Medical ethics-- History-- 18th century.

Medicine-- History-- 18th century.

Ethics, Medical-- history.

History of Medicine.

Physicians.

Medical ethics.

MEDICAL-- Ethics.

Medicine.

Scotland.

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MED-- 050000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

McCullough, Laurence B.

Date of Transaction

20201206205653.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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