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Edmund W. Noyes
A pioneering American dentist and teacher, this early 20th-century writer helped define professional ethics for dentistry. His work blends practical advice with a strong sense of duty, offering a window into how the profession saw its responsibilities to patients and society.
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History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 1862-1865
by Henry S. (Henry Sweetser) Burrage, William H. (William Henry) Hodgkins, Edmund W. Noyes, S. Alonzo Ranlett, Alonzo A. White
About the author
Born in 1842 and active for many decades in Chicago, Edmund W. Noyes was a dentist, educator, and author whose name became closely associated with dental ethics and jurisprudence. He wrote Ethics and Jurisprudence for Dentists, a book published in 1915 and later issued in a second edition, at a time when dentistry was working to define itself as a modern profession.
Noyes also taught ethics and jurisprudence at Northwestern University Dental School, and contemporary dental publications described him as an authority in the field. His writing focused not just on technical skill, but on the character, judgment, and professional obligations expected of a dentist.
He died in 1927. Today, his work remains of historical interest because it shows how questions of professional conduct, legal responsibility, and patient trust were being discussed more than a century ago.