Doctors and ethics : : the earlier historical setting of professional ethics / / edited by Andrew Wear, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, and Roger French.

• Superior document: Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
• VerfasserIn: Wear, A. 1946-
• TeilnehmendeR: Wear, A. 1946-; Geyer-Kordesch, Johanna,; French, R. K.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Atlanta GA : : Rodopi,, 1993.
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Series: Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Medical ethics has been a constant adjunct of Western medicine from its origins in Greek times. Although the Hippocratic Oath has been intensely studied, until recently there has been very little historical work on medical ethics between the Oath and Thomas Percival's Medical Ethics of 1803, which is commonly thought of as the first treatise on modern medical ethics. This volume brings together original research which throws new light on how standards of behaviour for medical practitioners were articulated in the different religious, political and social as well as medical contexts from the classical period until the nineteenth century. Its ten essays will place the early history of medical ethics into the framework of the new social and intellectual history of medicine that has been developed in the last ten years.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements / Andrew Wear, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch and Roger French -- Notes on Contributors / Andrew Wear, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch and Roger French -- Introduction / Andrew Wear, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch and Roger French -- Beyond the Hippocratic Oath / Vivian Nutton -- Medical Ethics in Transition in the Latin Medicine of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: New Perspectives on the Physician-Patient Relationship and the Doctor's Fee / Luis García-Ballester -- The Medical Ethics of Gabriele de Zerbi / Roger French -- Medical Ethics in Early Modern England / Andrew Wear -- Conflicting Duties: Plague and the Obligations of Early Modern Physicians Towards Patients and Commonwealth in England and The Netherlands / Ole Peter Grell -- Ethics in the Eighteenth Century: Hoffmann in Halle / Roger French -- Infanticide and Medico-legal Ethics in Eighteenth / Johanna Geyer-Kordesch -- The Ethical Discourse on Animal Experimentation, 1650-1900 / Andreas-Holger Maehle -- Thomas Gisborne: Physicians, Christians and Gentlemen / Roy Porter -- Does a Certificate of Lunacy Affect a Patient's Ethical Status? Psychiatric Paternalism and its Critics in Victorian England / Michael J. Clark -- Index / Andrew Wear, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch and Roger French.