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" John Gregory and the invention of professional medical ethics and profession of medicine / "
Laurence B. McCullough.
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BL
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1028046
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b782416
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McCullough, Laurence B.
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John Gregory and the invention of professional medical ethics and profession of medicine /\ Laurence B. McCullough.
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Dordrecht ;Boston :: Kluwer Academic,, ©1998.
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Philosophy and medicine ;; v. 56
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1 online resource (xv, 347 pages)
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0585271623
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0792349172
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9780792349174
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-331) and index.
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| Contents
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Front Matter; An Introduction to John Gregory'S Medical Ethics; John Gregory's Life and Times: An Intellectual History; John Gregory's Medical Ethics; Assessing Gregory's Medical Ethics; Back Matter.
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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.
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Gregory, John,1724-1773.
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Gregory, John,1724-1773
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Gregory, John,1724-1773
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Medical ethics-- History-- 18th century.
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Medicine-- History-- 18th century.
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Medical ethics.
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MEDICAL-- Ethics.
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Medicine.
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Physicians.
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Ethics, Medical-- history.
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History of Medicine.
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Scotland.
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174/.2/09033
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R724.M2921 1998eb
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