Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake —— The Birth of the Medical Profession

----- 希波克拉底的誓言和庇护蛇：医学界的诞生

ISBN: 9780190673673 出版年：2017 页码：193 Cavanaugh, T A Oxford University Press

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.