Medicine and Morals in the Enlightenment

John Gregory, Thomas Percival and Benjamin Rush
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-90-420-0225-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Clio Medica

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haakonssen, Lisbeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.