The Works, Literary, Moral, and Medical, of Thomas Percival, M.D.: Volume 1 by Thomas Percival

The Works, Literary, Moral, and Medical, of Thomas Percival, M.D.: Volume 1 by Thomas Percival

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The Works, Literary, Moral, and Medical, of Thomas Percival, M.D.: Volume 1 by Thomas Percival

A physician and medical reformer enthused by the scientific and cultural progress of the Enlightenment as it took hold in Britain, Thomas Percival (1740 1804) wrote on many topics, including public health and demography. His influential publication on medical ethics is considered the first modern formulation. In 1807, his son Edward published this four-volume collection of his father's diverse work. Some of the items here had never been published before, including a selection of Percival's private correspondence and a biographical account written by Edward. Volume 2 contains essays on moral and literary subjects, notably a Socratic discourse on truth as well as miscellaneous observations on the influence of habit and association. Also included are a memoir of the philanthropist Thomas Butterworth Bayley and the text of Percival's Medical Ethics (1803), which has been reissued separately in this series along with his Essays Medical and Experimental (revised edition, 1772 3).
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ISBN 13 9781108067331
ISBN 10 1108067336
Title The Works, Literary, Moral, and Medical, of Thomas Percival, M.D.: Volume 1
Author Thomas Percival
Series Cambridge Library Collection - History Of Medicine
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2013-11-21
Number of pages 662
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