Author: Veatch, Robert M.
Title: Disrupted Dialogue : Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician/Humanist Communication, 1770-1980
Description: Oxford, 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.

Keywords: Medical Ethics, History of Medicine, Physicians, Humanism, Humanistic Ethical, Professional Ethics, Scotland England, America,