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Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake: The Birth of the Medical Profession Cavanaugh, T.A. (Professor, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of San Francisco)
Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake: The Birth of the Medical Profession
Cavanaugh, T.A. (Professor, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of San Francisco)
This book 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.
208 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 1, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9780190673673 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 192 |
| Dimensions | 127 × 180 × 23 mm · 258 g |
| Language | English |