Grant Gillett is an active neurosurgeon; unusually, he is also a professor of biomedical
ethics. This book comprises a series of essays, his reflections on Hippocratic precepts. In the …

The single most important intellectual event in my career in medical ethics occurred the day I
realized that the Hippocratic ethic for medicine was not merely outdated and irrelevant but …

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title What is so special about
human life? What is the relationship between flesh and blood and the human soul? Is there …

© Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Pty Ltd. 2021 this viewpoint, it is nonetheless surely true that if
you embark on a course of treatment or an intervention of some sort, it is indeed wise to …

Developed out of the Gifford Lectures that he delivered in Edinburgh in 2008, Robert
Veatch's book is an indictment directed against the Hippocratic Oath. With focus on medical …

Bioethicists have typically disdained where they did not simply ignore the Hippocratic
tradition in medicine. Its exclusivity—an oath of and for physicians—seemed contrary to the …

Painted with a broad brush, The New Medicine: Life and Death After Hippocrates, by Nigel
M de S Cameron was first published in 1991 and remains as relevant as ever. The second …

In the present article, it is my intent to consider the morality of the Hippocratic Oath in the
context of a larger discussion of bioethics. That discussion is itself so remarkable, and so …

Dr. Newton begins her paper with the concept that the Hippocratic tradition is no longer with
us. I am not sure that she is totally justified in making this statement. She sees the medical …

In 2002, Steven Miles asked Does American Bioethics Have a Soul?(1, p. 1.) He called on"
this middle-aged profession facing its second 50 years" to expand its agenda broadly …