Veatch, Robert M. - Disrupted Dialogue : Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician/Humanist Communication, 1770-1980Oxford, Oxford University, 2005. orig.cloth. 24x16, xxii, 317 pp. Minor rubber.VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Scotland; Medical ethics in the Scottish enlightenment; The beginnings of medicine as an isolated science; England; Eighteenth- century England's integration of medicine and the humanities; Isolation of the English physician; Part 3: The United States, Canada and New Zealand; Physician-humanist interaction in the eighteenth century in the United States; The scientizing of medicine in the United States; Some physicians who almost confront the humanities; Diverging traditions: professional and religious medical ethics of the nineteenth century; Medical ethics in New Zealand and Nova Scotia: test cases; Part 4: The reconvergence of physicians and humanists; The end of the isolation: hints of reconvergence;The new enlightenment: the 1970s; Afterword: the 19 80s and beyond. USD 59.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.5 | £UK 44 | JP¥ 8717] Book number BOOKS014194Iis offered by:
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