In Ohio, the principle of confidentiality embodied in the Hippocratic Oath is more than an ethical principle espoused by the medical profession.' For physicians licensed to practice within this state, by virtue of Section 4731.22 of the Ohio Revised Code, the principle is a legal obligation, the breach of which may subject the practitioner to disciplinary action up to and including revocation o...

INTRODUCTION UNDER THE Ancien Regime, only the Hippocratic oath bound together French medical practitioners. Beyond the commitment to heal the sick and to conserve the healthy, medical men had little in common. They were a highly stratified group differing in social origins, education, and clientele. In the 1770s, the imperatives of political reform initiated a debate on the nature of medical p...

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The beginning of the Lycian text TL 45 is restored with usual topicalization direct object, but verb not appearing until line 3. content sentence does corre-spond to first Greek version. In this version, title and names archonts Hieron Apollodotos, known from contemporary trilingual Letöon inscrip-tion (N 320), are in lines 6-7. 11-12 a version theonym Trbbãmara may be restored. 45B revised and...

During the final phase of a threeyear-long programme to enhance the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), representatives of the States Parties met twice in 2005 “to discuss and promote common understanding and effective action on the content, promulgation, and adoption of codes of conduct for scientists” (United Nations, 2005b). The issue of codes of conduct is becoming increasingly ...