Michael Ryan's Writings on Medical Ethics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Brody, Howard (Editor), Meghani, Zahra (Editor), Greenwald, Kimberley (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 105
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Medicine > History.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; History of Medicine.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Philosophy of Medicine.

Michael Ryan (d. 1840) remains one of the most mysterious figures in the history of medical ethics, despite the fact that he was the only British physician during the middle years of the 19th century to write about ethics in a systematic way. Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics offers both an...