Medical Ethics: Or, a Code of Institutes and Precepts, Adapted to the Professional Conduct of Physicians and Surgeons

Thomas Percival

doi:10.1017/CBO9781107360518

A physician and medical reformer enthused by the scientific and cultural progress of the Enlightenment as it took hold in Britain, Thomas Percival (1740–1804) wrote on many topics, but he was particularly concerned about public health issues arising from the factory conditions of the Industrial Revolution. Calling for improved standards of care, he believed that the working poor should be treated the same as wealthy private clients. Following a disastrous dispute in 1792 which closed the Manchester Infirmary's Fever Hospital during an epidemic, Percival was asked to draft regulations on professional medical conduct. In 1794 he privately circulated a tract, Medical Jurisprudence, which he later revised for this 1803 publication. Based on Hippocratic and Christian principles, Percival's work is considered the first modern formulation of doctor-patient etiquette. His Essays Medical and Experimental (revised edition, 1772–3) and the four volumes of his collected works (1807) are also reissued in this series.

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Frontmatter
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Dedication
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Contents
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PREFACE
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QUICQUID DIGNUM SAPIENTE BONO-QUE EST
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CHAP. I - Of professional conduct relative to hospital or other medical charities
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CHAP. II - Of professional conduct in private, or general practice
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CHAP. III - Of the conduct of physicians to apothecaries
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CHAP. IV - Of professional duties in certain cases which require a knowledge of law
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AN APPENDIX
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Note. I - Hospital at Manchester
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Note. II - Distribution of printed copies of the Medical Ethics
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Note. III - Situation, construction and government of hospitals
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Note. IV - House of reception for patients ill of contagious fevers
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Note. V - Caution or temerity in practice
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Note. VI - Temperance of physicians
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Note. VII - A physician should be the minister of hope and comfort to the sick.—Enquiry, how far it is justifiable to violate truth for the supposed benefit of the patient
pp 156-168
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Note. VIII - The practice of prior physicians should be treated with candour, and justified so far as truth and probity will permit
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Note. IX - Theoretical discussions should be generally avoided
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Note. X - Regular academical education
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Note. XI - Pecuniary acknowledgments
pp 174-179
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Note. XII - Public worship; scepticism and infidelity
pp 179-199
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Note. XIII - Union and consultation of senior and junior physicians
pp 200-201
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Note. XIV - Retirement from practice—when—Letters from Dr. Heberden; and Sir G. Baker, Bart
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Note. XV - Partial insanity with general intelligence—Lucid interval
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Note. XVI - Duelling.—Letter from Dr. Franklin
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Note. XVII - Punishment of the crime of rape.—Disney's views of ancient laws against immorality, &c.—Eden's principles of penal law
pp 228-231
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Note. XVIII - Uncertainty in the external signs of rape—communication from Mr. Ward
pp 231-234
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Note. XIX - The smoke from large works a nuisance—Coalbrook-Dale
pp 234-237
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Note. XX - Discourse on Hospital Duties; by the Rev. T. B. Percival, LL. B—Brief memoirs of him
pp 238-239
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