Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 An introduction to the Boston medical police of 1808

Chapter 3 The historical context of the American medical association’s 1847 Code of Ethics

Chapter 5 Worthington Hooker on ethics in clinical medicine

Chapter 6 Diverging traditions: Professional and religious medical ethics of the nineteenth century

Chapter 7 Reciprocity in the development of Anglo-American medical ethics, 1765–1865

Chapter 8 An introduction to Jukes Styrap’s a code of medical ethics (1878)

Chapter 9 Forensic medicine and medical ethics in nineteenth-century Britain

Chapter 10 Secret remedies, medical ethics, and the finances of the British Medical Journal

Chapter 11 Legal precedent and medical ethics: Some problems encountered by the general medical council in relying upon precedent when declaring acceptable standards of professional conduct