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OverviewMedical 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 the humanities 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, Benjamin Rush, were close friends of philosophers like David Hume, Adam Smith, and Thomas Reid. They continually exchanged views on matters of ethics with each other in print, at meetings of elite intellectual groups, and at the dinner table. Then something happened, physicians and humanists quit talking with each other. In searching for the causes of the collapse, this book identifies shifts in the social class of physicians, developments in medical science, and changes in the patterns of medical education. Only in the past three decades has the dialogue resumed as physicians turned to humanists for help just when humanists wanted their work to be relevant to real-life social problems. Again, the book asks why, finding answers in the shift from acute to chronic disease as the dominant pattern of illness, the social rights revolution of the 1960's, and the increasing dissonance between physician ethics and ethics outside medicine. The book tells the critical story of how the breakdown in communication between physicians and humanists occurred and how it was repaired when new developments in medicine together with a social revolution forced the leaders of these two fields to resume their dialogue. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert M. Veatch (Professor of Medical Ethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Professor of Medical Ethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, USA)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.625kg ISBN: 9780195169768ISBN 10: 019516976 Pages: 340 Publication Date: 28 October 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPart I: Scotland 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 Movement of Medical Ethics from Britain to the U.S. and Elsewhere in the English Speaking World 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 10: The End of the Isolation: Hints of Reconvergence 11: The New Enlightenment: The 1970's Afterword: The 1980s and BeyondReviewsDisrupted Dialogue offers an intriguing new perspective on isolation and innovation in the history of Anglo-Americal medical ethics. It also presents a wealth of valuable new biographical and bibliographic information on the major and minor figures that shaped this history. It deserves a careful reading by anyone seriously interested in the history of modern medical ethics. --Bulletin of the History of Medicine<br> Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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