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Michael Ryan's Writings on Medical Ethics [electronic resource] /edited by Howard Brody, Zahra Meghani, Kimberley Greenwald.

by Brody, Howard [editor.]; Meghani, Zahra [editor.]; Greenwald, Kimberley [editor.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Philosophy and Medicine: 105Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.Description: online resource.ISBN: 9789048130498.Subject(s): Medicine | Ethics | medicine -- Philosophy | Medical ethics | Medicine & Public Health | History of Medicine | Ethics | Theory of Medicine/Bioethics | Philosophy of MedicineDDC classification: 616.009 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introductory Essay: Michael Ryan and Medical Ethics -- Medical Ethics in the English and Scottish Enlightenment -- Michael Ryan: A Biographical Summary -- Ryan's Writings on Medical Ethics -- Selected Writings by Ryan -- Origin of Medicine - Veneration for Its Cultivators -- Medical Ethics of Hippocrates -- Medical Ethics of the Middle Ages -- Ethics of the Present Age -- American Medical Ethics -- Medical Education -- Selections from Ryan's Obstetrical Writings.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: Michael Ryan (d. 1840) remains one of the most mysterious figures in the history of medical ethics, despite the fact that he was the only British physician during the middle years of the 19th century to write about ethics in a systematic way. Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics offers both an annotated reprint of his key ethical writings, and an extensive introductory essay that fills in many previously unknown details of Ryan’s life, analyzes the significance of his ethical works, and places him within the historical trajectory of the field of medical ethics. Gathers the key ethical writings of an often overlooked author in one volume Provides first detailed biography of Ryan Ryan is compared and contrasted in detail with predecessors, Gregory and Percival Highlights the unique, original contributions of Ryan to medical ethics
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Introductory Essay: Michael Ryan and Medical Ethics -- Medical Ethics in the English and Scottish Enlightenment -- Michael Ryan: A Biographical Summary -- Ryan's Writings on Medical Ethics -- Selected Writings by Ryan -- Origin of Medicine - Veneration for Its Cultivators -- Medical Ethics of Hippocrates -- Medical Ethics of the Middle Ages -- Ethics of the Present Age -- American Medical Ethics -- Medical Education -- Selections from Ryan's Obstetrical Writings.

Michael Ryan (d. 1840) remains one of the most mysterious figures in the history of medical ethics, despite the fact that he was the only British physician during the middle years of the 19th century to write about ethics in a systematic way. Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics offers both an annotated reprint of his key ethical writings, and an extensive introductory essay that fills in many previously unknown details of Ryan’s life, analyzes the significance of his ethical works, and places him within the historical trajectory of the field of medical ethics. Gathers the key ethical writings of an often overlooked author in one volume Provides first detailed biography of Ryan Ryan is compared and contrasted in detail with predecessors, Gregory and Percival Highlights the unique, original contributions of Ryan to medical ethics

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