Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake

Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake

The Birth of the Medical Profession

Cavanaugh, T.A. (Professor, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of San Francisco)

Oxford University Press Inc

12/2017

192

Dura

Inglês

9780190673673

15 a 20 dias

This book articulates the Hippocratic Oath as establishing the medical profession by a promise to uphold an internal medical ethic that particularly prohibits doctors from killing. In its most basic and least controvertible form, this ethic mandates that physicians help and not harm the sick.
Chapter 1 Snake? Chapter 2 Hippocrates' Oath Chapter 3 Wounding Chapter 4 Oath, profession, and autonomy Conclusion: One or many medical professions? Appendix: Hippocrates' Oath: Greek text and literal English translation
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