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The Codification of Medical Morality

Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Volume One: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in the Eighteenth Century

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Editors:
  1. Robert Baker

    1. Department of Philosophy, Union College, Shenectady, USA

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  2. Dorothy Porter

    1. Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

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  3. Roy Porter

    1. Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 45)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Robert Baker, Dorothy Porter, Roy Porter
      Pages 1-14

  3. Medical Propriety and Impropriety in the English-SPeaking World Prior to the Formalization of Medical Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-17
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    2. Innocent and Honorable Bribes: Medical manners in Eighteenth-Century Britain

      • Mary E. Fissell
      Pages 19-45

    3. Ethics and Dispute Behavior in the Career of Henry Bracken of Lancaster: Surgeon, Physician, and Manmidwife

      • David Harley
      Pages 47-71

    4. Plutus or Hygeia? Thomas Beddoes and the Crisis of Medical Ethics in Britain at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

      • Roy Porter
      Pages 73-91

  4. The Eighteenth-Century Philosophical Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-98
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    2. Common Sense and Virtue in the Scottish Moralists

      • Tom L. Beauchamp
      Pages 99-121

    3. Natural Law and Medical Ethics in the Eighteenth Century

      • Johanna Geyer-Kordesch
      Pages 123-139

  5. The Formalization of Medical Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-144
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    2. John Gregory’s Medical Ethics and Humean Sympathy

      • Laurence B. McCullough
      Pages 145-160

    3. Thomas Percival and the Production of Medical Ethics

      • John V. Pickstone
      Pages 161-178

    4. Deciphering Percival’s Code

      • Robert Baker
      Pages 179-211

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 213-232
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About this book

The editors have incurred many debts in preparing this book, and both etiquette and ethics would be contravened if they were not discharged here. Above all, we wish to thank the contributors for so cheerfully complying with our suggestions for preparing their papers for publication and efficiently meeting our schedules. It is thanks to their cooperation that this volume has appeared speedily and painlessly; their revisions have helped to give it internal coherence. This volume has emerged from papers delivered at a conference on the History of Medical Ethics, held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, 1 December, 1989. We are most grateful to the Wellcome Trust for having underwritten the costs of the conference, and to Frieda Houser and Stephen Emberton whose organizational skills contributed so much to making it a smoothly-run and enjoyable day. In addition to the papers delivered at the conference, we are delighted to have secured further contributions from David Harley and Johanna Geyer-Kordesch. Our thanks to them for their eager help. From start to finish, we have received splendid encouragement from all those connected with the Philosophy and Medicine series, especially Professor Stuart Spicker, and Martin Scrivener at Kluwer Academic Publishers. Their enthusiasm has lightened our load, and expedited the editorial process.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Union College, Shenectady, USA

    Robert Baker

  • Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

    Dorothy Porter

  • Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK

    Roy Porter

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Codification of Medical Morality

  • Book Subtitle: Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Volume One: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in the Eighteenth Century

  • Editors: Robert Baker, Dorothy Porter, Roy Porter

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8228-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1921-4Published: 31 March 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4193-7Published: 05 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8228-5Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 232

  • Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Ethics, History of Medicine, History, general, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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