John Gregory and the Invention of Professional Medical Ethics and the Profession of Medicine / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9780792349174 Publisher: Springer Netherlands Publication date: 04/30/1998 Series: Philosophy and Medicine , #56 Edition description: 1998 Pages: 352 Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.36(d) The best things in my Ufe have come to me by accident and this book results from one such accident: my having the opportunity, out of the blue, to go to work as H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. 's, research assistant at the Institute for the Medical Humanities in the University of Texas Medi­ cal Branch at Galveston, Texas, in 1974, on the recommendation of our teacher at the University of Texas at Austin, Irwin C. Lieb. During that summer Tris "lent" me to Chester Bums, who has done important schol­ arly work over the years on the history of medical ethics. I was just finding out what bioethics was and Chester sent me to the rare book room of the Medical Branch Library to do some work on something called "medical deontology. " I discovered that this new field of bioethics had a history