The legislation and the texts of the most important medical writers of Byzantine times have been studied with reference to abortions, the ethical aspect of this social and medico-legal problem, the theological and the scientific approach. The theoretical basis of the permanent and absolute condemnation of all kinds of abortions except those permitted for medical reasons, is greatly influenced b...

At a time when superstition and deities were thought to be responsible for health and disease, Hippocrates of Kos emerged as a rational thinker assigning disease to natural causes. His insights, which principally arose from what may be considered almost compulsive examination and comparison, formed the basis of Hippocratic Medicine. There are still unresolved questions regarding the authenticit...

335 eral population the costs of medical progress that benefits a few members of the population. Out of pure self-interest, we should worry about shifting to sick people the costs of essential interventions. Because of the successes of modern medicine, most of us will survive our heart attack or cancer and go on to live with one or more chronic diseases. We will need some expensive drugs, devic...

The Hippocratic Oath, emphasizing sacred principles of caring for our patients with professionalism and compassion, is considered the moral compass guiding health care provision. More recently, however, the regulation of health care quality has become the prerogative of federal and other agencies rather than the individual health care professional. The US health care system is currently in tran...

The article is devoted to the activities of highest state body Russian Empire during interregnum 1825. political crisis changed institutional status State Council. His position in system power this period was not based on legislative acts, it depended time-honored Senate and determined by tasks plan for Nikolai Pavlovich's coming power. It shown that meeting November 27, members supported initi...

a n wa r s h a h w i t h s a n a s h a h 1 We will strive increasingly to quicken the public sense of public duty; that thus. .. we will transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better, and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us. —Oath of office required of council members in the ancient city of Athens

This issue of The Rhode Island Medical Journal calls out a conflict in our concept of the integrity of health professions. The typical construction of integrity of health professionals – Primum non nocere (first, do no harm – an expression of the ethical precept of nonmalfeasance) – dates from the pre-scientific age, before the association of science, health and public health was understood. Pr...