Aktualizacija i prikaz prvog teksta o medicinskoj etici na engleskom jeziku

Abstract

The historians of medical ethics agree that the first published text on medical ethics in Eng-lish was Observations on the Duties and Offices of a Physician and on the Method of Prosecuting Enquiries in Philosophy, published in1770 by the physician and philosopher John Gregory (1724-1773).By actualising that work emphasizes its importance for the emergence of Percival’s medical ethical codex and try to prove the entwining of ethical values, thoughts, and standards with historical-cultural conditions of the development of medicine within a particular time frame. In accordance with that, in the first part of the paper we expose basic biographical data on John Gregory and discuss the influence of the ideas and attitudes of F. Bacon and D. Hume on value defining and humanist orientation in the work of Gregory. In the second part, considered is the development of medicine in the 18th century, while in the third part, by actualization presented - John Gregory’s basic messages influenced in the ethical standardisa-tion of medical-ethical issues.