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While the shade of Hippocrates looms large in our current assumptions about the roots of medical ethics, early modern medical practitioners rarely looked back to antiquity for guidance about ethics. Indeed, no ethics particular to their profession or vocation governed conduct. Rather, appropriate behavior was inculcated through the institution of apprenticeship, shaped by general norms of master/servant and client/patron interactions. It was only in the 1770s that a medical ethics became possible or desirable, following changes in the structure of medical practice and shifts in more general cultural assumptions about behavior.
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Fissell, M.E. (1993). Innocent and Honorable Bribes: Medical manners in Eighteenth-Century Britain. In: Baker, R., Porter, D., Porter, R. (eds) The Codification of Medical Morality. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8228-5_2
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