Contents -- Part I: Scotland -- 1. Medical Ethics in The Scottish Enlightenment -- Background of The Scottish Enlightenment -- Camaraderie Between Medicine and the Humanities -- 2. The Beginnings of Medicine as an Isolated Science -- Isolation of the Physician -- Emergence of Hippocratic-Type Oaths at Graduation -- Why the Isolation? -- Part II: England -- 3. Eighteenth-Century England's Integration of Medicine and the Humanities -- John Wesley -- Gisborne -- Thomas Percival -- 4. Isolation of the English Physician -- Edward Percival and the Beginnings of Isolation -- Emergence of Hippocrates -- Michael Ryan -- Alfred S. Taylor -- Jukes de Styrap -- Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Activity of the British Medical Association -- The Basis for the English Isolation -- Part III: The United States, Canada, and New Zealand -- 5. Physician-Humanist Interaction in the Eighteenth Century in the United States -- Cotton Mather -- Benjamin Rush -- Samuel Bard -- 6. The Scientizing of Medicine in the United States -- Nathaniel Chapman -- John Redmon Coxe -- Early History of Organized Medicine's Ethics -- American Medical Association Code of 1847 -- 7. Some Physicians Who Almost Confront the Humanities -- Worthington Hooker -- Alfred Stillé -- Austin Flint, Lewis S. Pilcher, and the New York Society -- William Osler -- Richard Cabot -- Revisions of the American Medical Association's Principles -- Reasons for Isolation in the United States -- 8. Diverging Traditions: Professional and Religious Medical Ethics of the Nineteenth Century -- Religious Traditions in Medical Ethics -- Roman Catholic Medical Morality -- Comparing the Ethics of Organized Medicine and the Catholic Church -- A Concluding Puzzle -- 9. Medical Ethics in New Zealand and Nova Scotia: Test Cases -- New Zealand: A Nineteenth Century Scottish Case.

Nova Scotia: Another Nineteenth Century Scottish Case -- Part IV: The Reconvergence of Physicians and Humanists -- 10. The End of Isolation: Hints of Reconvergence -- Anticipating Reintegration: Mid-Century Hints of Something to Come -- The Excitement of The 1960s -- 11. The New Enlightenment: The 1970s -- Emergence of Interdisciplinary Centers and Teaching Programs -- Secular Medical School Teaching Programs -- Interdisciplinary Commissions -- British Reconvergence -- The Impact of Renewing the Dialogue -- Why the Reconvergence? -- Conclusion -- Afterword: The 1980s and Beyond -- Major Developments in Bioethics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.