Thomas Percival’s Medical Ethics and the Invention of Medical Professionalism

This book provides the first comprehensive, historically based, philosophical interpretations of two texts of Thomas Percival’s professional ethics in medicine set in the context of his intellectual biography. Preceded by his privately published and circulated  Medical Jurisprudence  of 1794, Thomas Percival (1740-1804) published  Medical Ethics  in 1803, the first book thus titled in the global histories of medicine and medical ethics.  From his days as a stud