This is the first book-length scholarly study of the medical  ethics of John Gregory (1724-1773), who wrote the first  English-language bioethics. This book shows how Gregory invented  professional medical ethics and, in the process, the concept of the  profession of medicine as a fiduciary profession. Making extensive use  of manuscript and other primary sources, the book provides the first  complete intellectual biography of Gregory, placing his medical ethics  in its eighteenth-century contexts of Scottish Enlightenment history  and culture, Baconian science and philosophy of medicine, medical  practice, the feminine and feminist philosophy of the Bluestocking  Circle, and moral sense philosophy, particularly David Hume's concept  of sympathy. A detailed examination of his texts on medical ethics is  followed by a consideration of the implications of Gregory's medical  ethics for contemporary bioethics, especially feminist bioethics.    This book is intended for scholars, teachers, and students of  bioethics, medical ethics, the history of medicine, and the history of  medical ethics.

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