Medical Fraternity: Initiations in the Hippocratic Corpus.

By the end of the fifth century, Hippocratic physicians were organised in a family-like association, which acted according to formal statutes, recorded in the Oath, the Law, and other deontological texts. The Hippocratics were required to adhere to strict norms of ritual and moral purity, allowing t...

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Published in:	Scripta Classica Israelica Vol. 43; pp. 55 - 87
Main Author:	Ustinova, Yulia
Format:	Article
Published:	Israeli Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies 2024
Subjects:	Physicians' oaths Medical ethics Esotericism Oral tradition Greece
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