The Works, Literary, Moral, and Medical, of Thomas Percival, M.D. 4 Volume Set: To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selecti

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 1 contains this biography and the full text of Percival's popular self-improvement book, A Father's Instructions. Volume 2 contains essays on moral and literary subjects. Also included is the text of Percival's Medical Ethics (1803). Volume 3 contains the first two parts of Essays Medical and Experimental, the revised edition of which has been reissued separately in this series in one volume. Volume 4 contains the third and fourth parts, which were completed following the revised edition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108067379
• ISBN13: 9781108067379
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 2270 Pages
• Weight: 6.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.3" x 5.7" x 8.7"