Disrupted Dialogue Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician-Humanist Communication (1770-1980)

Name: Disrupted Dialogue Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician-Humanist Communication (1770-1980)
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ISBN: 9780195169768

ISBN-10: 019516976X

ISBN-13: 9780195169768

Edition: 2004

Authors: Robert M. Veatch

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Medical ethics changed dramatically in the past 30 years because physicians and humanists actively engaged each other in discussions that sometimes led to confrontation and controversy, but usually have improved the quality of medical decision-making. Before then medical ethics had been isolated for almost two centuries from the larger philosophical, social, and religious controversies of the time. There was, however, an earlier period where leaders in medicine and in thehumanities worked closely together and both fields were richer for it.This volume begins with the 18th century Scottish Enlightenment when professors of medicine such as John Gregory, Edward Percival, and the American,…

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List price: $61.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/16/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.30" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.364




Scotland



The Beginnings of Medicine as an Isolated Science



England



Eighteenth Century England's Integration of Medicine and the Humanities



The Isolation of the English Physician



The Movement of Medical Ethics from Britain to the U.S. and Elsewhere in the English Speaking World



The Physician-Humanist Interaction in the Eighteenth Century in the U.S.



The Scientizing of Medicine in the U.S.



Some Physicians Who Almost Confront the Humanities



Diverging Traditions: Professional and Religious Medical Ethics of the Nineteenth Century



Medical Ethics in New Zealand and Nova Scotia: Test Cases



The End of the Isolation: Hints of Reconvergence



The New Enlightenment: The 1970's


Afterword: The 1980s and Beyond