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- John Gregory (1724-73) wrote the first modern, professional medical ethics in the English language, appearing as Lectures on the Duties and Qualifications of a Physician in 1772.
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Background and aim of the work: In 1803, the English physician Thomas Percival published Medical Ethics, a work destined to become a milestone in the development of modern codes of medical ethics, starting from the first edition of the American Medical Association’s ethical code.
Thomas Percival FRS FRSE FSA (29 September 1740 – 30 August 1804) was an English physician, health reformer, ethicist and author who wrote an early code of medical ethics.
May 28, 2012 · The expression “medical ethics” was not coined until 1803, when Thomas Percival (1740–1804), a physician from Manchester, England, introduced it in his eponymous book Medical Ethics (Percival 1803b) as a description of the professional duties of physicians and surgeons to their patients, to their fellow practitioners, and to the public ...
- Robert Baker, Laurence McCullough
- 2008
- Bibliographical Note
- Privately and Publicly Published Works of Thomas Percival
- Manuscript and Unpublished Sources
- Online Sources
- Other Published Primary and Secondary Sources
The bibliography that follows this brief introduction comprises four additional sections. Section II comprises Percival’s privately and publicly published works. The former is Medical Jurisprudence. Section III includes manuscript resources, including information about the libraries in which they are deposited. Section IV lists online sources. Sect...
Two printers played an important role in publishing Percival’s writings. William Eyres (1734–1809) was a Warrington publisher, noted especially for the quality of his typography. He also published John Aikin (1713–1780), a noted Dissenter and one of Percival’s teachers at Warrington Academy (Kendrick 1858). Joseph Johnson (1738–1809) was Dissenter ...
1.3.1 Aberdeen University Library
1. AUL 2206/45: 1743. “Medical Notes,” including “A proposal for a medicall society,” by John Gregory.
1.3.2 Edinburgh University Library
1. EUL E.B. 6104 ED 11744. 1744. “Practical remarks on the sympathy of the parts of the body by the late Dr. James Crawford Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh,” article in Medical Essays and Observations, Revised and Published by a Society in Edinburgh, Vol. V, Part II.
1.3.3 Tate Library, Harris Manchester College of the University of Oxford
1. Warrington Academy Papers. 1754. Published letter of July 11, 1754. 2. Report of the Progress that has been made in the Establishment of the Academy at Warrington with an Abstract of the LAWS for the Governance of the STUDENTS. 1758. Report of first meeting of trustees of Warrington Academy 30 June 1757. 3. A Report of the State of the Academy at Warrington Drawn up by the Trustees at their Annual Meeting July 10 MDCCLX. 1760. 4. A Report of the State of the Academy at Warrington Drawn up...
Bible, King James Version. n.d. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV2&byte=2198535. Accessed 4 Sept 2020. 1 Corinthians 31. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV2&b...American Medical Association. n.d. Code of medical ethics. Why does the medical profession need a code of ethics? https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/why-does-medical-profession-need-co...American Philosophical Society. n.d. https://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewis-and-clark-fund-exploration-and-field-research. Accessed 4 Sept 2020.Eccles Old Road. Uncovering Salford’s Lost Heritage. Hart Hill. https://ecclesoldroad.uk/place/hart-hill/. Accessed 4 Sept 2020.No author identified. 1775. A Select Catalogue of Books in the Library Belonging to Warrington Academy. Warrington: Printed by William Eyres.No author identified. 1968. Sir George Baker (1722–1809) Discoverer of the Pathogenesis of Devonshire colic. Journal of the American Medical Association204(6): 541.Abbott, John L. 1970. John Hawkesworth: Friend of Samuel Johnson and editor of Captain Cook’s Voyages and of the Gentleman’s Magazine. Eighteenth Century Studies3(3): 339–350.Aikin, John. 1771. Thoughts on Hospitals, with a Letter to the Author by Thomas Percival. London: Printed for Joseph Johnson, 72 St. Paul’s Churchyard.- Laurence B. Mccullough
Since its appearance in 1803, Percival's Medical Ethics has been the dominant influence in Anglo-American medical ethics and the paradigmatic source for the first, and subsequent, Code of the American Medical Association. Its influence is exceeded only by the Oath and Deontological books of the Hippocratic Corpus.
- Edmund D. Pellegrino
- 1986
Preceded by his privately published and circulated Medical Jurisprudence of 1794, Thomas Percival (1740-1804) published Medical Ethics in 1803, the first book thus titled in the global histories of medicine and medical ethics.
One of the founding figures of modern medical ethics, Dr Pellegrino gained international renown for his deeply reflective scholarship and for his public service, most notably as chair of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2005–2009.
