Doctors and ethics : the earlier historical setting of professional ethics / edited by Andrew Wear, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, and Roger French.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wear, A. (Andrew), 1946- author.

Contributor:

Geyer-Kordesch, Johanna, editor.

French, R. K. (Roger Kenneth), editor.

Series:

Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.

Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics--History.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Atlanta GA : Rodopi, 1993.

Summary:

Medical ethics has been a constant adjunct of Western medicine from its origins in Greek times. Although the Hippocratic Oath has been intensely studied, until recently there has been very little historical work on medical ethics between the Oath and Thomas Percival's Medical Ethics of 1803, which is commonly thought of as the first treatise on modern medical ethics. This volume brings together original research which throws new light on how standards of behaviour for medical practitioners were articulated in the different religious, political and social as well as medical contexts from the classical period until the nineteenth century. Its ten essays will place the early history of medical ethics into the framework of the new social and intellectual history of medicine that has been developed in the last ten years.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Acknowledgements / Andrew Wear, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch and Roger French

Notes on Contributors / Andrew Wear, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch and Roger French

Introduction / Andrew Wear, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch and Roger French

Beyond the Hippocratic Oath / Vivian Nutton

Medical Ethics in Transition in the Latin Medicine of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: New Perspectives on the Physician-Patient Relationship and the Doctor's Fee / Luis García-Ballester

The Medical Ethics of Gabriele de Zerbi / Roger French

Medical Ethics in Early Modern England / Andrew Wear

Conflicting Duties: Plague and the Obligations of Early Modern Physicians Towards Patients and Commonwealth in England and The Netherlands / Ole Peter Grell

Ethics in the Eighteenth Century: Hoffmann in Halle / Roger French

Infanticide and Medico-legal Ethics in Eighteenth / Johanna Geyer-Kordesch

The Ethical Discourse on Animal Experimentation, 1650-1900 / Andreas-Holger Maehle

Thomas Gisborne: Physicians, Christians and Gentlemen / Roy Porter

Does a Certificate of Lunacy Affect a Patient's Ethical Status? Psychiatric Paternalism and its Critics in Victorian England / Michael J. Clark

Index / Andrew Wear, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch and Roger French.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-41834-2

OCLC:

762777818

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004418349 DOI