This volume reprints in a scholar's edition the first  English-language texts on bioethics, John Gregory's (1724-1773)  Observations on the Duties and Offices of a Physician and on  the Method of Prosecuting Enquiries in Philosophy (London,  1770) and Lectures on the Duties and Qualifications of a  Physician (London, 1772). Five previously unpublished manuscripts  of Gregory's lectures are also included. An introduction places  Gregory's medical ethics and philosophy of medicine in their  eighteenth-century contexts of Scottish Enlightenment history and  culture, Baconian science and philosophy of medicine, medical  practice, the feminine and feminist philosophy of the Bluestocking  Circle, and moral sense philosophy, particularly David Hume's concept  of sympathy, and provides a bibliography of primary and secondary  sources as an aid to teaching and future scholarship. The book's index  provides access to Gregory's texts, by using both historical terms and  current terminology of bioethics.   A volume in the subseries Classics of Medical Ethics.

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