Plutus or Hygeia? Thomas Beddoes and the Crisis of Medical Ethics in Britain at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

1993 ◽  
pp. 73-91
Author(s):  
Roy Porter
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Ethics

Pharmaceutical patenting and the transformation of American medical ethics

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 577-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSEPH M. GABRIEL
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Medical Association ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
American Medical ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Pharmaceutical Patents ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Us

AbstractThe attitudes of physicians and drug manufacturers in the US toward patenting pharmaceuticals changed dramatically from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. Formerly, physicians and reputable manufacturers argued that pharmaceutical patents prioritized profit over the advancement of medical science. Reputable manufactures refused to patent their goods and most physicians shunned patented products. However, moving into the early twentieth century, physicians and drug manufacturers grew increasingly comfortable with the idea of pharmaceutical patents. In 1912, for example, the American Medical Association dropped the prohibition on physicians holding medical patents. Shifts in wider patenting cultures therefore transformed the ethical sensibilities of physicians.

Therapeutic Holism

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-64
Author(s):  
Brittany Pladek
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Healthy People ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Friedrich Schiller ◽  
Health Humanities ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

This chapter historicizes therapeutic holism, the model of literary therapy The Poetics of Palliation challenges. Beyond the faith that literature and its tools can heal, therapeutic holism reflects three guiding assumptions: first, that healthy people are wholes whose unity depends on an anti-dualist, teleological self-concept; second, that broken holism is mended by literature through a dialectic process of reintegration; and third, that the holism of functioning individuals both parallels and is constructed by the holism of their society. The chapter illustrates therapeutic holism’s Romantic genealogy by comparing its appearance in health humanities scholarship with Romantic writing, particularly the organicist tradition of German Romantics like Friedrich Schiller. Along the way, it reviews the history of nineteenth-century medical ethics that forms the interdisciplinary background to the rest of the book, including a discussion of ethics’ role in medical professionalization; the history of palliative care; and the tradition of advocating education in the humanities as a way to ‘humanize’ physicians.

Insane acquittees and insane convicts: the rationalization of policy in nineteenth-century Connecticut

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-426
Author(s):  
Lawrence B Goodheart
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Psychiatric Facility ◽  
Industrial Transformation ◽  
State Prison ◽  
A Current

A current situation in Connecticut of whether a violent insane acquittee should be held in a state prison or psychiatric facility raises difficult issues in jurisprudence and medical ethics. Overlooked is that the present case of Francis Anderson reiterates much of the debate over rationalization of policy during the formative nineteenth century. Contrary to theories of social control and state absolutism, governance in Connecticut was largely episodic, indecisive and dilatory over much of the century. The extraordinary urban and industrial transformation at the end of the Gilded Age finally forced a coherent response in keeping with longstanding legal and medical perspectives.

A “Boa Morte” de Bacon

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (52) ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
António Lourenço Marques ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Palliative Medicine ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Good Death ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Hippocratic Tradition

Euthanasia or “good death”, in the early seventeenth century, became part of the field of medical ethics through the English philosopher, Francis Bacon. He advocated that euthanasia, as “sweet and peaceful death” of the sick, should be sought by the physicians, with their care, and disapproved the abandonment, as determined by the Hippocratic tradition. The word euthanasia underwent a change in its Baconian sense, in the nineteenth century, when it came to mean death inten­tionally provoked as a way to achieve “good death.” Palliative medicine, however, represents the realization of current medicine regarding the commitment not to abandon the terminally ill, and to the effective search for a good death through care, as Francis Bacon defended.

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