HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Menstruation, Hippocratic Oath, Miasma Theory
19 Sep 2018
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Not a lot of medical ethics in the hippocratic oath. Therefore temporary inability to offer prayer to the god. Kathartic is a kind of drug that expels things from your body (makes you vomit, etc) Hippocratic oath emphasises the family relationship among doctors. Swear to gods to bring this oath to fulfillment. Power and judgement come up over and over again in the oath (very important for a doctor) Doctor has power vis a vis his patients and in the art himself (it gives him power) and he must exercise judgement (must not misuse that power) Divine medical guild he is swearing in front of. First part of the oath is a contract of association. Adopting himself into the family of his teacher and adopting his teacher as his father and his teachers children as his siblings and won"t charge them a fee. Use regimen to help treat the ill and use judgement to keep them from being.
