Elisha Bartlett’s Philosophy of Medicine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stempsey, William E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine, Classics of Medical Ethics ; 83
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Medicine > History.; Medical ethics.; Philosophy of Medicine.; History of Medicine.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

This volume is a scholar's edition of the first systematic American work on the philosophy of medicine, An Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science (Philadelphia, 1844), by Elisha Bartlett (1804-1855). The book is divided into two parts: Part I consists of a critical introduction that gives a...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents: Part I: William E. Stempsey, S.J. A Biographical Sketch of Elisha Bartlett. Philosophy of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Elisha Bartlett’s Philosophy of Medicine. Bartlett’s Other Writings. Bibliography
• Part II: Texts; Elisha Bartlett. An Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science, Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1844. Part First: Philosophy of Physical Science. Part Second: Philosophy of Medical Science. Index. The Philosophy of Therapeutics, Manuscript, ca. 1852
• Notes; William E. Stempsey, S.J
• Index.