# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-percival
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:14:01.321Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-percival"
name: "Thomas Percival"
slug: "thomas-percival"
description: "Thomas Percival was an English physician, health reformer, ethicist and author who wrote an early code of medical ethics. He drew up a pamphlet with the code in 1794 and wrote an expanded version in 1803, Medical Ethics; or, a Code of Institutes and Precepts, Adapted to the Professional Conduct of Physicians and Surgeons in which he coined the expression \"medical ethics\". He was a founding subscriber of the Portico Library in Manchester and a pioneering campaigner for public health measures and factory regulation in the city."
tagline: "British physician (1740-1804)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_T._Percival_Wellcome_M0014299.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1740"
deathDate: "1804"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.8
  historical:           7.212384
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump