Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics
Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics

Author: Howard A. Brody

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-10-20

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 9048130492

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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 19th 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.

Disrupted Dialogue
Disrupted Dialogue

Author: Robert M. Veatch

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 019516976X

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Medical ethics changed dramatically in the past 30 years because physicians and humanists actively engaged each other in discussions that sometimes led to confrontation and controversy, but usually have improved the quality of medical decision-making. Before then, medical ethics had been isolated for almost two centuries from the larger philosophical, social, and religious controversies of the time. Only in the past three decades has the dialogue resumed as physicians turned to humanists for help just when humanists wanted their work to be relevant to real-life social problems. The book tells the critical story of how the breakdown in communication between physicians and humanists occurred and how it was repaired when new developments in medicine together with a social revolution forced the leaders of these two fields to resume their dialogue.