The Codification of Medical Morality: Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nine

by Patricia Baker and R.B. Baker

Like many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its predecessor arose over lunch in the cafeteria of the old Wellcome Institute. On an atternoon in Sept- ber 1988, Dorothy and Roy Porter, and I, sketched out a plan for a set of conf- ences in which scholars from a variety of disciplines would explore the emergence of modern medical ethics in the English-speaking world: from its pre-history in the quarrels that arose as gentlemanly codes of etiquette...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792335287
• ISBN13: 9780792335283
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"