John Gregory and the Invention of Professional Medical Ethics and the Profession of Medicine

By:

Laurence B. McCullough

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Philosophy and Medicine

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This is the first book-length scholarly study of the medical ethics of John Gregory (1724-1773), who wrote the first English-language bioethics. This book shows how Gregory invented professional medical ethics and, in the process, the concept of the profession of medicine as a fiduciary profession. Making extensive use of manuscript and other primary sources, the book provides the first complete intellectual biography of Gregory, placing his medical ethics in its eighteenth-century contexts of Scottish Enlightenment history and culture, Baconian science and philosophy of medicine, medical practice, the feminine and feminist philosophy of the Bluestocking Circle, and moral sense philosophy, particularly David Hume's concept of sympathy. A detailed examination of his texts on medical ethics is followed by a consideration of the implications of Gregory's medical ethics for contemporary bioethics, especially feminist bioethics. This book is intended for scholars, teachers, and students of bioethics, medical ethics, the history of medicine, and the history of medical ethics.

Release date NZ

December 15th, 2010

Author

Laurence B. McCullough

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998

Illustrations

XVI, 352 p.

Pages

352

Series

Philosophy and Medicine

Dimensions

155x235x19

ISBN-13

9789048149841

Product ID

10059031

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