Author: T. A. Cavanaugh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190673672
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This book articulates the Hippocratic Oath as establishing the medical profession by a promise to uphold an internal medical ethic that particularly prohibits doctors from killing. In its most basic and least controvertible form, this ethic mandates that physicians help and not harm the sick.