Health Sciences 2610F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Maimonides, Bioethics, Professional Responsibility

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2610F/G
• Professor: Ken Kirkwood

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1 22: began in the school of hippocrates, hippocratic oath: i will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury or wrongdoing. This is the basis of the central latin maxim of medical practice: primum non nocere ( first, do no harm : how doctors should treat patients rest on general moral principles about how a person should treat other people. Derived from the more fundamental questions of ethics that socrates raises in plato"s. Biomedical ethics is grounded in the study of moral philosophy: hippocratic tradition was carried on by jewish philosopher and physician moses. Maimonides: but, the english physician thomas percival first used the term medical ethics when he published his book with this title. He expanded the hippocratic focus on the doctor-patient relationship to a broader social ethic of medicine, emphasizing the professional responsibility of the physician.