John Gregory And The Invention Of Professional Medical Ethics And The Profession Of Medicine (philosophy And Medicine)
by Laurence B. McCullough /
1998 / English / PDF
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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. This
string of accidents continued, in 1975, when Warren Reich (who in
1979 made the excellent decisions to hire me to the faculty in
bioethics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and to
persuade Andre Hellegers to appoint me to the Kennedy Institute of
Ethics) took Tris Engelhardt's word for it that I could write on
the history of modem medical ethics for Warren's major new project,
the Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Warren then asked me to write on
eighteenth-century British medical ethics.
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. This
string of accidents continued, in 1975, when Warren Reich (who in
1979 made the excellent decisions to hire me to the faculty in
bioethics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and to
persuade Andre Hellegers to appoint me to the Kennedy Institute of
Ethics) took Tris Engelhardt's word for it that I could write on
the history of modem medical ethics for Warren's major new project,
the Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Warren then asked me to write on
eighteenth-century British medical ethics.