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The Hippocratic Oath and Contemporary Medicine: Dialectic Between Past Ideals and Present Reality?

The Hippocratic Oath, the Hippocratic tradition, and Hippocratic ethics are widely invoked in the popular medical culture as conveying a direction to medical practice and the medical profession. This study critically addresses these invocations of Hippocratic guideposts, noting that reliance on the...

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Published in:Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 107 - 129
Main Author: Jotterand, Fabrice
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Feb2005
Subjects:
Medical ethics
Medicine
Professional ethics
Medical practice
Bioethics
Biopolitics (Sociobiology)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost