Author: PERCIVAL, THOMAS.
Title: Medical Ethics; or A Code of Institutes and precepts, Adapted to the Professional Conduct of Physicians and Surgeons. Together with an Introduction by Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D.
Description: Limited Facsimile Edition; Demy 8vo; pp.[iv], 52, xvi, 246, [4];marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, silk page-marker, full leather binding, raised bands, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt decoration to spine and boards, fine copy. Together with small associated booklet titled "Notes From The Editors" Birmingham; The Classics of Medicine Library; 1985. Thomas Percival's 'Medical Ethics", published in 1803, offered a set of guidelines for physicians and surgeons, defining their responsibilities and relationships, and proposing rules of etiquette to control conduct. It came to form the basis for the 'Code of Ethics" adopted by the American Medical Association in 1847. and while revised many times the rules of conduct and the ethos of the physician remain those postulated by the English codist.

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