Disrupted dialogue : medical ethics and the collapse of physician-humanist communication (1770-1980) /
Robert M. Veatch.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- xxii, 317 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-297) and index.
Contents
Part I. Scotland 1. Medical ethics in the Scottish Enlightenment 2. The Beginnings of Medicine as an Isolated Science
Part II. England 3. Eighteenth Century England's Integration of Medicine and the Humanities 4. The Isolation of the English Physician
Part III. The United States, Canada, and New Zealand 5. The Physician-Humanist Interaction in the Eighteenth Century in the U.S. 6. The Scientizing of Medicine in the U.S. 7. Some Physicians Who Almost Confront the Humanities 8. Diverging Traditions: Professional and Religious Medical Ethics of the Nineteenth Century 9. Medical Ethics in New Zealand and Nova Scotia: Test Cases
Part IV. The Reconvergence of physicians and humanists 10. The End of the Isolation: Hints of Reconvergence 11. The New Enlightenment: The 1970's Afterword: The 1980s and Beyond
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