The Codification of Medical Morality: Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

doi:10.1056/NEJM199409083311026

Volume 331:686		September 8, 1994		Number 10

The Codification of Medical Morality: Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

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Vol. 1. Medical ethics and etiquette in the eighteenth century. (Philosophy and Medicine. Vol. 45.) Edited by Robert Baker, Dorothy Porter, and Roy Porter. 230 pp. Boston, Kluwer Academic, 1993. $87. ISBN 0-7923-1921-4.

The literature of the history of medicine contains relativelyfew serious studies of the formation of ethical standards formedical practice. Consequently, this collection of essays comesas a welcome addition. This book, the first of two planned volumes,explores various aspects of the formalization of medical ethicsin the modern English-speaking world. Coedited by a philosopherand two historians, the book is a scholarly yet accessible introductionto the historical background of modern medical ethics. The essaysrepresent mature scholarship in this area of study, and severalof the contributors have themselves previously written substantialstudies of the development . . . [Full Text of this Article]