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...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 107 - 129 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Feb2005
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