The Codification of Medical Morality: Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesVolume Two: Anglo-American Medical Ethics and Medical Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth CenturyR.B. Baker Springer Science & Business Media, 2007 M08 26 - 241 pages Like many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its predecessor arose over lunch in the cafeteria of the old Wellcome Institute. On an atternoon in Sept- ber 1988, Dorothy and Roy Porter, and I, sketched out a plan for a set of conf- ences in which scholars from a variety of disciplines would explore the emergence of modern medical ethics in the English-speaking world: from its pre-history in the quarrels that arose as gentlemanly codes of etiquette and honor broke down under the pressure of the eighteenth-century "sick trade," to the Enlightenment ethics of John Gregory and Thomas Percival, to the American appropriation process that culminated in the American Medical Association's 1847 Code of Ethics, and to the British turn to medical jurisprudence in the 1858 Medical Act. Roy Porter formally presented our idea as a plan for two back-to-back c- ferences to the Wellcome Trust, and I presented it to the editors of the PHI- LOSOPHY AND MEDICINE series, H. Tristram Engeihardt, Jr. and Stuart Spicker. The reception from both parties was enthusiastic and so, with the financial backing of the former and a commitment to publication from the latter, Roy Porter, ably assisted by Frieda Hauser and Steven Emberton, - ganized two conferences. The first was held at the Wellcome Institute in - cember 1989; the second was sponsored by the Wellcome, but was actually held in the National Hospital, in December 1990. |
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... principles . . . . Doc- tors from Massachusetts to Texas drew from the code for innumerable speeches and lectures before their societies , graduating medical classes , and public lyceums .... [ Some ] enthusiastically claimed the code ...
... principles . . . . Doc- tors from Massachusetts to Texas drew from the code for innumerable speeches and lectures before their societies , graduating medical classes , and public lyceums .... [ Some ] enthusiastically claimed the code ...
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... principles of ethical theory , they can not be ethics and so , Leake concluded , they merely reflected profes- sional etiquette . Consequently , although " Percival sincerely and earnestly did his best to promote the idealism and ...
... principles of ethical theory , they can not be ethics and so , Leake concluded , they merely reflected profes- sional etiquette . Consequently , although " Percival sincerely and earnestly did his best to promote the idealism and ...
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... principles grounded in ethical theory , whereas the latter does not . Bell's " Introduction " explained the nature ... Principles of Biomedical Ethics ( [ 9 ] , p . 6 ) . 4. Ethical Theories ↑ 3. Principles ↑ 2. Rules ↑ 1. Judgments ...
... principles grounded in ethical theory , whereas the latter does not . Bell's " Introduction " explained the nature ... Principles of Biomedical Ethics ( [ 9 ] , p . 6 ) . 4. Ethical Theories ↑ 3. Principles ↑ 2. Rules ↑ 1. Judgments ...
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... principles ( in Rawls ' case , fa- mously , a principle of justice ) , the classic English contractarians ( Thomas Hobbes and John Locke ) , and contemporary contractarians who take them as their models ( David Gauthier [ 20 ] and ...
... principles ( in Rawls ' case , fa- mously , a principle of justice ) , the classic English contractarians ( Thomas Hobbes and John Locke ) , and contemporary contractarians who take them as their models ( David Gauthier [ 20 ] and ...
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... principle that Starr enunciates here — the principle that professional claims should always be read in terms of pro- fessional ambitions- the " discounting rule " because it is used to preemptively discount professionals own accounts of ...
... principle that Starr enunciates here — the principle that professional claims should always be read in terms of pro- fessional ambitions- the " discounting rule " because it is used to preemptively discount professionals own accounts of ...
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Popular passages
Page 81 - ... require him temporarily to withdraw from his duties to his patients, and to request some of his professional brethren to officiate for him. Compliance with this request is an act of courtesy, which should always be performed with the utmost consideration for the...
Page 86 - Medical men should also be always ready, when called on by the legally constituted authorities, to enlighten coroners' inquests and courts of justice on subjects strictly medical — such as involve questions relating to sanity, legitimacy, murder by...
Page 129 - A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savor of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his services in the treatment or cure of the disease. But he should not fail, on proper occasions, to give to the friends of the patient timely notice of danger when it really occurs; and even to the patient himself, if absolutely necessary.
Page 60 - Secrecy and delicacy, when required by peculiar circumstances, should be strictly observed; and the familiar and confidential intercourse to which physicians are admitted in their professional visits, should be used with discretion, and with the most scrupulous regard to fidelity and honor.
Page 79 - ... 10. A patient should, after his recovery, entertain a just and enduring sense of the value of the services rendered him by his physician ; for these are of such a character, that no mere pecuniary acknowledgment can repay or cancel them. CHAPTER II. OF THE DUTIES OF PHYSICIANS TO EACH OTHER AND TO THE PROFESSION AT LARGE.
Page 61 - The benefits accruing to the public, directly and indirectly, from the active and unwearied beneficence of the profession, are so numerous and important, that physicians are justly entitled to the utmost consideration and respect from the community. The public ought likewise to entertain a just appreciation of medical qualifications; to make a proper discrimination between true science and the assumptions of ignorance and empiricism...
Page 78 - ... they are very apt to suppose that the rules prescribed for them may be disregarded ; and the consequence, but too , often, is a relapse. Patients should never allow themselves to be persuaded to take any medicine whatever that may be recommended to them by the self-constituted doctors and doctresses who are so frequently met with, and who pretend to possess infallible remedies for the cure of every disease.
Page 80 - All practitioners of medicine, their wives, and their children while under the paternal care, are entitled to the gratuitous services of any one or more of the faculty residing near them, whose assistance may be desired.
Page 76 - A physician ought not to abandon a patient because the case is deemed incurable ; for his attendance may continue to be highly useful to the patient, and comforting to the relatives around him, even in the last period of a fatal malady, by alleviating pain and other symptoms, and by soothing mental anguish. To decline attendance, under such circumstances, would be sacrificing to fanciful delicacy and mistaken liberality that moral duty which is independent of and far superior to all pecuniary consideration.