Michael Ryan's Writings on Medical Ethics

✍ Scribed by Howard Brody, Zahra Meghani, Kimberley Greenwald (auth.), Howard Brody, Zahra Meghani, Kimberley Greenwald (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine 105
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 19^th 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

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Medical Ethics in the English and Scottish Enlightenment....Pages 3-16
Michael Ryan: A Biographical Summary....Pages 17-34
Ryan's Writings on Medical Ethics....Pages 35-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-88
Introduction....Pages 89-109
Origin of Medicine - Veneration for Its Cultivators....Pages 111-115
Medical Ethics of Hippocrates....Pages 117-128
Medical Ethics of the Middle Ages....Pages 129-140
Ethics of the Present Age....Pages 141-180
American Medical Ethics....Pages 181-189
Medical Education....Pages 191-222
Selections from Ryan's Obstetrical Writings....Pages 223-242
Back Matter....Pages 243-258

✦ Subjects

History of Medicine; Ethics; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Philosophy of Medicine