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Physicians’ professionalism from the patients’ perspective: a qualitative study at a single-family practice in Saudi Arabia
IntroductionProfessionalism is a crucial component of medical practice. It is a culturally sensitive notion that generally consists of behaviors,...
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Harvey, William
The natural philosopher William Harvey was born in Folkestone on April 1, 1578. He studied at the Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge, and from...
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The Liverpool Care Pathway: Lessons in Care of the Dying
The importance of this chapter is to learn from the experience of the Liverpool Care Pathway in the UK. The lessons are evident from inception to...
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“We Should Not Lightly Assume”: A Review of Legislative, Regulatory and Jurisprudential Developments of MAID Safeguards
In the Supreme CourtSupreme Court of Canada of CanadaCanada decision of Carter v. CanadaCarter v. Canada (Attorney General) 2015, the Court approved...
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Evolution of Academic Carriers in the Earlier and the Later Han
This chapter will continue to discuss books and scholars as academic carriers through the Han Dynasty. For the books, both the Earlier Han and the...
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Making the anaesthetised animal into a boundary object: an analysis of the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection
This paper explores how, at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection, the anaesthetised animal was construed as a boundary object around which...
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Experience and perspectives of end-of-life care discussion and physician orders for life-sustaining treatment of Korea (POLST-K): a cross-sectional study
BackgroundThis study aimed to identify the healthcare providers’ experience and perspectives toward end-of-life care decisions focusing on...
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Bill of Rights III: Reproductive Rights and Sexual Non-discrimination
This chapter highlights scientific, philosophical, and historical research on reproductive rights. Six additions in the new, updated Constitution...
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Baconianism
The philosophy of Francis Bacon was interpreted in various ways in the seventeenth century. In England, his utopian project and natural history...
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What Percival Inherits: John Gregory’s Moral Revolution Against the Long Tradition of Entrepreneurial Medicine in the History of Western Medicine
In this book I will use historically based, philosophical interpretation of primary-source and secondary-source texts to explain how the English...
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Digby on Plants and Palingenesis
On January 23 1661, Kenelm Digby delivered a lecture on the vegetation of plants before the Royal Society. Digby’s Discourse (1661) became very...
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The Place of Percival’s Medical Ethics in the History of Medical Ethics
In this, the final, chapter I will attempt to place Thomas Percival Medical Ethics and the professional ethics in medicine that it expounds in the...
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Toward a comparative history of medical genetics as a medical specialty in North America
Much of what has been written about the history of medical genetics in North America has focused on physician involvement in eugenics and the...
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The Ethics of Biomedical Practitioners: A Brief Historical Introduction
This chapter provides a brief introductory history of biomedical practitioners’ efforts at self-regulation though oaths, codes, and statements of...
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Thomas Percival Joins Gregory’s Moral Revolution Against the Long Tradition of Entrepreneurial Medicine in the History of Western Medicine
Eighteenth-century Manchester and environs emerged as a rapidly growing center of the textile industry. By 1717, Manchester was estimated to have a...
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Introduction: The Digbean Way, or Navigating Between the ‘Old’ and the ‘New’
Kenelm Digby was ‘one of the most influential natural philosophers’ (Clericuzio 2000, 81) of his time, whose ‘posthumous reputation as a natural...
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Ethical Judgment of What (Not) to Be Disclosed
Chapter three provides an in-depth ethical analysis of what types of incidental findings (IFs) from genomic research or clinical testing should or...
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An Intellectual Biography of Thomas Percival
Percival’s writings were published in four volumes in 1807, edited by his son Edward Percival (Percival 1807). These volumes were reprinted in 1870...