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- The first comprehensive scholarly account of Thomas Percival’s professional ethics
- The first collection of three essential Percival texts with two concordances
- Intended for teachers and students of medical ethics and professionalism, the history of medicine, philosophy
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 142)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Thomas Percival’s Medical Ethics and the Invention of Medical Professionalism
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Front Matter
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Three Key Texts – Medical Ethics, Medical Jurisprudence, and Extracts – Two Concordances, and a Chronology
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- medical jurisprudence
- medical ethics
- Thomas Percival's Writings on medical ethics
- Thomas Percival's writings on medical jurisprudence
- history of medical jurisprudence
- medical ethics in historical and local context
- history of professional medical ethics
- changes to medical ethics
- percival's published works
Authors and Affiliations
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Center for Medical Ethics & Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
Laurence B. McCullough
About the author
After receiving his AB in Art History from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, he completed his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. After a post-doctoral fellowship at The Hastings Center (then in Hastings-on-Hudson, NewYork) he joined the medical and philosophy faculties at Texas A&M University. He then served on the medical faculty at Georgetown University and as a Senior Research
Scholar the Georgetown’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He joined the faculty of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, in 1988 and become the inaugural holder of Baylor’s Dalton Tomlin Chair in Medical Ethics and Health Policy in 2008.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Thomas Percival’s Medical Ethics and the Invention of Medical Professionalism
Book Subtitle: With Three Key Percival Texts, Two Concordances, and a Chronology
Authors: Laurence B. McCullough
Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86036-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86035-6Published: 05 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86038-7Published: 06 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86036-3Published: 04 April 2022
Series ISSN: 0376-7418
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 472
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Medical Law, History of Medicine