Michael Ryan's Writings on Medical Ethics
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
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Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 105 Founding Co-Editor Stuart F. Spicker
Senior Editor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Associate Editor Lisa M. Rasmussen, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
CLASSICS OF MEDICAL ETHICS 3 Series Editor Robert B. Baker, Department of Philosophy, Union College, Schenectady, New York and Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Laurence B. McCullough, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics
Editors H. Brody Institute for the Medical Humanities University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston USA [email protected]
Z. Meghani Philosophy Department University of Rhode Island Kingston USA
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Acknowledgements
We began this project as a team of four. Sara Schuman assisted us in our early stages until other responsibilities forced her to withdraw. During most of the process of preparing this volume we benefited from the facilities provided by the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University. We are especially grateful to Jan Holmes and the late Beth McPhail for their assistance in scanning the Ryan texts. We could not have completed this volume without assistance from a great many people, most of whom are listed in the Endnotes to the Introductory Essay in connection with their specific contributions. Our primary research source was the Wellcome Library in London with its magnificent history of medicine collection, and we are grateful to the various staff of the Wellcome who assisted us in numerous ways. As none of us are historians of medicine by training, we have relied all along on advice from our better-educated colleagues, including Peter Vinten-Johansen, Declan O’Reilly, Harold Vanderpool, Jason Glenn, and Dayle DeLancey. Our editors, Bob Baker and Larry McC
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