Medicine and Morals in the Enlightenment : John Gregory, Thomas Percival and Benjamin Rush /
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 exte...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill | Rodopi,
1997.
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| Series: | Clio Medica ;
44. Clio Medica Online, ISBN: 9789004418646. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9789401200233 9401200238 9789042002258 9042002255 |
