Disrupted dialogue : medical ethics and the collapse of physician-humanist communication (1770-1980) / Robert M. Veatch.
Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: xxii, 317 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 019516976X (alk. paper)
- Medical ethics -- England -- History
- Medical ethics -- Scotland -- History
- Medical ethics -- United States -- History
- Humanistic ethics -- England -- History
- Humanistic ethics -- Scotland -- History
- Humanistic ethics -- United States -- History
- Physicians -- Professional ethics -- England
- Physicians -- Professional ethics -- Scotland
- Physicians -- Professional ethics -- United States
- Ethics, Medical -- history -- England
- Ethics, Medical -- history -- Scotland
- Ethics, Medical -- history -- United States
- Humanism -- England
- Humanism -- Scotland
- Humanism -- United States
- Physicians -- England
- Physicians -- Scotland
- Physicians -- United States
- W 50 V394da 2005
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book Open Access | Health Sciences Library | W 50 V394da 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | MBAL22050246 |
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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