The Hippocratic Tradition

1980 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 366 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Scarborough ◽  
Wesley D. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Hippocratic Tradition

Hippocrates, Maimonides and the Doctor's Responsibility

2000 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalman J. Kaplan ◽  
Matthew B. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Jack Kevorkian ◽  
Hippocratic Tradition

Jack Kevorkian criticizes the Hippocratic tradition in Greek medicine, which bans the physician from giving his patient a lethal medication. He sees this prohibition as potentially bringing harm to a suffering patient and not reflective of the larger Greek society which was tolerant and even approving of suicide. However, Kevorkian's advocacy of doctor-assisted suicide can be seen as the polarity of doctor abandonment of the suffering patient rather than as an antidote to it. Both positions involve an outcome of physician removal from the suffering patient, which can be contrasted with Maimonides' command to the physician to watch over the life and death of his patients.

Beyond Symptoms

2018 ◽  
pp. 217-221
Author(s):  
S. Nassir Ghaemi
Keyword(s):  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Treatment Response ◽  
Biological Markers ◽  
Genetic Diseases ◽  
Clinical Psychopharmacology ◽  
Primary Target ◽  
Course Of Illness ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Hippocratic Tradition

The four classic diagnostic validators of psychiatry are appraised: symptoms, course, genetics, and treatment response/biological markers. Of these, course of illness is seen as the most important and the most neglected. The non-specificity of treatment response and the inadequacy of symptoms is emphasized. If symptoms are not the primary target for drug treatment, as the Hippocratic tradition teaches, then diagnosis becomes extremely important for the practice of clinical psychopharmacology. The role of genetics is important, but it is limited to highly genetic diseases. Related to DSM-5 and its predecessors, the application of these diagnostic validators demonstrates that most DSM diagnoses are not valid.

Physician-Assisted Suicide: Where to Draw the Line?

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERNLÉ W.D. YOUNG
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Assisted Dying ◽  
Physician Assisted Suicide ◽  
Assisted Death ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Moral Distinction ◽  
Physician Assisted Dying ◽  
Hippocratic Tradition

In brief compass, I will touch on three of the central ethical and public policy issues that divide those who are opposed to physician-assisted dying from those who are supportive of this practice. These are: (1) the moral distinction (if any) between actively hastening death and passively allowing to die; (2) how to interpret the Hippocratic tradition in medicine with respect to physician-assisted death; and (3) whether physician-assisted suicide can be effectively regulated. I shall summarize the arguments pro and con with respect to each issue, and also indicate my own position.

scholarly journals Reception of Jesus as healer in Mark’s community

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zorodzai Dube
Keyword(s):  
Great Power ◽  
Common People ◽  
Jesus Movement ◽  
Northern Regions ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Great Knowledge ◽  
Hippocratic Tradition ◽  
Power And Authority

This study traces the manner in which the evangelist Mark presents Jesus as a healer. While this is the primary focus, I am also interested, from an identity perspective, in why Mark is keen to present Jesus as the best physician. Healers during the 1st century were varied. Cities had professional healers with great knowledge of the Greek Hippocratic tradition. The entire empire had famous temples of Asclepius and Apollo. Common people had diverse knowledge about various illnesses with remedies varying from herbs to exorcisms. Amidst all this and located in southern Syria in the northern regions of Galilee, Mark presents Jesus as a healer. The study concludes that Mark presents Jesus as an efficient healer with great power and authority. Though Mark is mute regarding other healers such as Asclepius and Apollo, near whose temples patients would sleep for days waiting for healing, he wants to remind the adherents of Jesus’ movement that they are following a great physician. A few selected stories from Mark’s gospel illustrate this argument.

scholarly journals Évolution de la conscience morale hippocratique

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-139
Author(s):  
Kazimierz Szałata
Keyword(s):  
Hippocratic Oath ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Christian Anthropology ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Science Session ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hippocratic Tradition

This article is written in French. The article is a presentation of a lecture delivered on the International Science Session “Ethics, Finances and Responsibility”, which took place on October the 3rd and 4th, 2008 in Chateau de Bossey near Geneva. Searching for sources of ethic thoughts connected with difficult moral problems of the contemporary world, the author deals with the oldest, well known writing about the ethical practice of medicine, the Hippocratic Oath. Presenting the plenteous, philosophical- ethical contents of the Oath and the history of the growth on it the Hippocratic tradition enriched in experience of the Christian anthropology, the author identifies its norms and rules. Unfortunately, since the Enlightenment times, especially the nineteenth century Positivism the tradition has been seriously disturbed. Together with the questioning the Aristotelean-Thomism anthropology, the doubts appeared related to the matter of protection of life since the conception until the natural death. Whereas new, legal regulations connected with the progress of in medical studies request deep anthropological and philosophical reflection, which would bring back the importance of the forgotten Hippocratic tradition, where in the center of medical actions is a man who needs help.

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