Lipman Halpern was born in 1902 into a family of Grand Rabbis who lived in Bialystok from the mid-nineteenth century. Inspired by his son's decision to study medicine, Halpern's father authored a comprehensive and innovative book on medicine according to Rabbinic Law. After completing his initial medical studies in Königsberg, Halpern went on to specialize in neuropsychiatry in Berlin and then ...

4 " I declare that I have produced the work entitled: " Adaptive control of eye saccade accuracy by the cerebellum: the site of plasticity and functional mechanisms " submitted for the award of a doctorate, on my own (without external help), have used only the sources and aids indicated and have marked passages included from other works, whether verbatim or in content, as such. I swear upon oat...

A WHITE COAT. THE COUNTRY DOCTOR’S BLACK BAG. A STETHOSCOPE. A snake-entwined staff. The oath of Hippocrates. The clinical acumen of Osler and the compassionate service of Schweitzer. These are the symbols and personifications of our chosen profession. One symbol of medicine since antiquity has been the Aesculapian staff. A glance through this journal will uncover the staff in the American Medi...

commended for making available a treatise which can be read only in incunabula and early printed editions. But the actual latin text could have been subjected to a little more rigorous revision, so that some of the sentences might give better sense. The list of errata by no means covers all the misreadings, particularly in the first part of the book, a surprising fact considering the people who...

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The Hippocratic Oath has guided the conduct of physicians for centuries. Inspired by its tenet of preserving privacy, we argue that future database systems must include responsibility for the privacy of data they manage as a founding tenet. We enunciate the key privacy principles for such Hippocratic database systems. We propose a strawman design for Hippocratic databases, identify the technica...

IT IS A curious fact that despite the rapidly growing volume of literature on the professions, little work has been done by sociologists on the development of professional ethics. This omission becomes doubly curious when one considers the central importance attributed to professional ethics in much of the literature on professions; given this situation one can hardly aspire to an adequate soci...

They are many. The fi gures in Jacques-Louis David’s The Tennis Court Oath (Le Serment du Jeu de Paume) are spread out, lined up, piled on top of each other, cramped together, their bodies suggesting sheer quantity (fi g. 2.1). The ones who wave and peek through the large windows high on the walls extend the assembly beyond the depicted hall. It is impossible to tell where this human aggregatio...

The virtuous doctor has subscribed an oath and by subscribing to this solemn promise, he is committed to live in accordance with the purposes, obligations and virtues established in the medical profession. Cinematic art has shown only a superficial interest in complex aspects of medical profession. An exception is Ingmar Bergman's film "Wild Strawberries", where Professor Isak Borg, a widowed 7...