Disrupted dialogue : medical ethics and the collapse of physician-humanist communication (1770-1980) / Robert M. Veatch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Veatch, Robert M., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics--History.

Medical ethics.

Humanistic ethics--History.

Humanistic ethics.

Physicians--Professional ethics--History.

Physicians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Medical ethics changed dramatically in the past 30 years because physicians and humanists actively engaged each other in discussions that sometimes led to confrontation and controversy, but usually have improved the quality of medical decision-making. Before then medical ethics had been isolated for almost two centuries from the larger philosophical, social, and religious controversies of the time. There was, however, an earlier period where leaders in medicine and in the humanities worked closely together and both fields were richer for it. This volume begins with the 18th century Scottish Enlightenment when professors of medicine such as John Gregory, Edward Percival, and the American, Benjamin Rush, were close friends of philosophers like David Hume, Adam Smith, and Thomas Reid.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Part I: Scotland

1. Medical Ethics in The Scottish Enlightenment

Background of The Scottish Enlightenment

Camaraderie Between Medicine and the Humanities

2. The Beginnings of Medicine as an Isolated Science

Isolation of the Physician

Emergence of Hippocratic-Type Oaths at Graduation

Why the Isolation?

Part II: England

3. Eighteenth-Century England's Integration of Medicine and the Humanities

John Wesley

Gisborne

Thomas Percival

4. Isolation of the English Physician

Edward Percival and the Beginnings of Isolation

Emergence of Hippocrates

Michael Ryan

Alfred S. Taylor

Jukes de Styrap

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Activity of the British Medical Association

The Basis for the English Isolation

Part III: The United States, Canada, and New Zealand

5. Physician-Humanist Interaction in the Eighteenth Century in the United States

Cotton Mather

Benjamin Rush

Samuel Bard

6. The Scientizing of Medicine in the United States

Nathaniel Chapman

John Redmon Coxe

Early History of Organized Medicine's Ethics

American Medical Association Code of 1847

7. Some Physicians Who Almost Confront the Humanities

Worthington Hooker

Alfred Stillé

Austin Flint, Lewis S. Pilcher, and the New York Society

William Osler

Richard Cabot

Revisions of the American Medical Association's Principles

Reasons for Isolation in the United States

8. Diverging Traditions: Professional and Religious Medical Ethics of the Nineteenth Century

Religious Traditions in Medical Ethics

Roman Catholic Medical Morality

Comparing the Ethics of Organized Medicine and the Catholic Church

A Concluding Puzzle

9. Medical Ethics in New Zealand and Nova Scotia: Test Cases

New Zealand: A Nineteenth Century Scottish Case.

Nova Scotia: Another Nineteenth Century Scottish Case

Part IV: The Reconvergence of Physicians and Humanists

10. The End of Isolation: Hints of Reconvergence

Anticipating Reintegration: Mid-Century Hints of Something to Come

The Excitement of The 1960s

11. The New Enlightenment: The 1970s

Emergence of Interdisciplinary Centers and Teaching Programs

Secular Medical School Teaching Programs

Interdisciplinary Commissions

British Reconvergence

The Impact of Renewing the Dialogue

Why the Reconvergence?

Conclusion

Afterword: The 1980s and Beyond

Major Developments in Bioethics

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-770637-1

1-280-84097-8

0-19-974810-1

1-4294-3816-9

OCLC:

79629063