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Medicine and Morals in the Enlightenment

John Gregory, Thomas Percival and Benjamin Rush

Lisbeth Haakonssen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

250 Seiten

1997
Editions Rodopi B.V. (Verlag)
978-90-420-0225-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Acknowledgements

1. Interpreting Eighteenth-Century Medical Ethics

Etiquette and Monopoly

Sympathy and Contract

A New Interpretation

2. John Gregory: Medical Ethics and Common Sense

Personality and Profession

The Art and Science of Medicine

Duties of a Polite Profession

3. Thomas Percival: The Duty of Public Office

Character and Context

Medical Ethics and Medical Practice

4. Benjamin Rush: Medical Ethics for a New Republic

Character and Connections

Medical Science

Medicalized Ethics

Epilogue

Index

Reihe/Serie	Clio Medica ; 44
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 225 mm
Gewicht	557 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	90-420-0225-5 / 9042002255
ISBN-13	978-90-420-0225-8 / 9789042002258
Zustand	Neuware