Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake: The Birth of a Medical Profession

ISBN-10
0190673702
ISBN-13
9780190673703
Category
Medical ethics
Pages
177
Language
English
Published
2017-12
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
T. A. Cavanaugh

Description

T.A. Cavanaugh's 'Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake' 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

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