John Gregory

John Gregory's Writings on Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine - Philosophy and Medicine 1998 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Part I: Introduction; L. B. McCullough. I. Contents of this Book. II. A Biographical Sketch of John Gregory. III. Gregory's Medical Ethics. A: Gregory's Problem List: Eighteenth-Century British Medicine. B: Baconian Experimental Method and Philosophy of Medicine. C: Hume's Principle of Sympathy. D: Gregory's Feminine Ethics. IV. Gregory's Observations and Lectures. V. Primary and Secondary Sources Related to Gregory. A: Primary Sources. B: Secondary Sources. Bibliography. Part II: Texts. Manuscript Sources. Published Work by John Gregory. Notes. Index. Publisher Marketing: This volume reprints in a scholar's edition the first English-language texts on bioethics, John Gregory's (1724-1773) Observations on the Duties and Offices of a Physician and on the Method of Prosecuting Enquiries in Philosophy (London, 1770) and Lectures on the Duties and Qualifications of a Physician (London, 1772). Five previously unpublished manuscripts of Gregory's lectures are also included. An introduction places Gregory's medical ethics and philosophy of medicine in their 18th-century contexts of Scottish Enlightenment history and culture, Baconian science and philosophy of medicine, medical practice, the feminine and feminist philosophy of the Bluestocking Circle, and moral sense philosophy, particularly David Hume's concept of sympathy, and provides a bibliography of primary and secondary sources as an aid to teaching and future scholarship. The book's index provides access to Gregory's texts, by using both historical terms and current terminology of bioethics.

Contributor Bio:  McCullough, Laurence B Laurence B. McCullough is Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics and Associate Director for Education in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He has published 10 books and more than 375 scholarly articles and book chapters on the history of medical ethics, the ethics of the major medical specialties, research ethics, and the philosophy of Leibniz. His research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Council of Learned Societies.