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The Hippocratic Oath is a model code of professional ethics. The aim in forbidding these practices was to set up The Oath as a guide against physicians putting their patients through undue harm. In Hippocrates’ time, abortion and (most) surgeries would surely endanger the lives of the patient.
But if we put these proscriptions in historical context, they make sense. It contains specific bans of practices, such as “I will never induce an abortion” and “I will not engage in surgery”, which seem to run against contemporary medical ethics. The contents of The Oath may strike the contemporary reader as outdated, or perhaps misguided. The Oath was a way of “establishing medicine as a profession that ordinary people could trust” and a way to distinguish trained physicians from medical con men. While it is uncertain if the oath itself was written by Hippocrates (Boylan “Hippocrates”), genuine physicians sought to protect patients from the dangers of these charlatans by setting up a code of ethics. In this way, honest professional physicians were confronted with a dilemma, similar to what Pellegrino (1990) sees in contemporary professional medical ethics debates. They were self-serving individualists trying to make a quick buck. The term ‘fleecing’ shows up in descriptions of these quacks-etymologically, ‘fleecing’ is a metaphor for stripping a person “of money, property, etc., as a sheep is stripped of its fleece” (Oxford English Dictionary). These charlatans swindled their patients, convincing them that health problems were the product of supernatural forces not understandable by the patient (Couch 1934).
460-370 BCE) was one when many untrained charlatans tried to present themselves off as physicians (Boylan “Hippocrates”). Hippocrates engraving by Peter Paul Rubens, 1638. In this blog post, I will give some background information on the Hippocratic Oath and argue that the oath should presents a model code of professional ethics. 500 BCE, this document is clearly one of the most momentous and long-lasting codes of ethics. What intrigues me about this is that, given that the Hippocratic Oath was written c.a. Pellegrino (1990) argues that the idea of medicine as a moral community can be linked back to Hippocrates.
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