Overview
- Gathers the key ethical writings of an often overlooked author in one volume
- Provides first detailed biography of Ryan
- Ryan is compared and contrasted in detail with predecessors, Gregory and Percival
- Highlights the unique, original contributions of Ryan to medical ethics
Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 105)
Part of the book sub series: Classics of Medical Ethics (COME)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introductory Essay: Michael Ryan and Medical Ethics
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The work of a key figure in the history of medical ethics, Michael Ryan, is the focus of this very important book. It provides critical commentary and historical analysis as well as some of Ryan’s important texts. … This is appropriate for scholars and students in medical ethics and bioethics, philosophy of medicine, and history of medicine. This authoritative volume will advance scholarship. … This is an excellent book and a significant contribution to the field.” (Ana Smith Iltis, Doody’s Review Service, January, 2010)
“This book was produced to fill the 19th century gap in the history of medical ethics … . One of the most interesting parts of the book for current students of medical ethics is a short debate Brody sets up with another giant of the field … . the rich historical treatment of medical ethics lived and practiced by Michael Ryan which has been given to us in a very readable form by Howard Brody and his capable collaborators in this excellent book.” (Jack T. Hanford, Ethics Medicine, Vol. 28 (1), 2012)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics
Editors: Howard Brody, Zahra Meghani, Kimberley Greenwald
Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3049-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3048-1Published: 30 October 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3065-6Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3049-8Published: 20 October 2009
Series ISSN: 0376-7418
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 258
Topics: History of Medicine, Ethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Philosophy of Medicine
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology