Oath of Hippocrates

The Hippocratic Oath in Halakhah

Hippocrates, often considered the father of Western medicine, lived in ancient Greece shortly after the building of the Second Temple. Despite his numerous contributions to academic and clinical medicine, Hippocrates is likely best known to modern students of medicine through the Hippocratic Oath, a text attributed to Hippocrates and traditionally administered to students shortly before their g...

Scholastic medicine and philosophy

chosen to claim it for their own, and the meaning of many of its phrases has long been the subject of doubt and discussion. This beautifully produced edition will go far towards informing the German reader of the difficulties of interpreting the Oath, and will alert him to some of the dangers of an eager identification of ancient and modern. He will also gain from some of the commentators' subt...

Give Hippocrates a jersey: promoting health through football/sport.

HIPPOCRATES During the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens, many of us had the opportunity to remind ourselves of the historical perspectives of medicine while visiting sites associated with the father of medicine, Hippocrates (460–377BC); highlights included the Acropolis and his birth and place of work on the island of Kos. While visiting those places and recalling the achievements of Hippocrates, i...

Hippocrates' Oath is challenged.

Professing faith, professing medicine: Physicians and the call to evangelize.

THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH TRADITIONALLY ESTABLISHES MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION: A career, or vocation based on the professing of an oath regarding personal and public behavior. For Catholic physicians, the commitments of the Oath of Hippocrates take on new meaning when seen in light of the promises made at Baptism and renewed every Easter. This paper, originally an address to medical students, conside...