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• Title:Disrupted dialogue : medical ethics and the collapse of physician-humanist communication (1770-1980) / Robert M. Veatch.
  
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• Author/Creator:Veatch, Robert M.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W50 .V394 2005
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics--England--History.
  Medical ethics--Scotland--History.
  Medical ethics--United States--History.
  Humanistic ethics--History.
  Physicians--Professional ethics--England.
  Physicians--Professional ethics--Scotland.
  Physicians--Professional ethics--United States.
  
• Medical Subjects: Ethics, Medical--history.
  Physicians.
  Humanism.
  Scotland.
  England.
  United States.
  
• Description:xxii, 317 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Terms governing use:Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.
  
• Summary:"This volume begins with the eighteenth century Scottish Enlightenment when physicians such as John Gregory, Thomas 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 stopped 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."--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-297) and index.
  
• ISBN:019516976X (alk. paper)
  9780195169768 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Medical ethics in the Scottish enlightenment
  The beginnings of medicine as an isolated science
  tEighteenth-century England's integration of medicine and the humanities
  Isolation of the English physician
  Physician-humanist interaction in the eighteenth century in the United States
  The scientizing of medicine in the United States
  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 isolation : hints of reconvergence
  The new enlightenment : the 1970s.