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Justice and the Individual in the Hippocratic Tradition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Richard M. Zaner
Richard M. Zaner
Affiliation:
Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, and Director of the Center for Clinical and Research Ethics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville.
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Extract

Among the many striking features of modern medicine is one that has rarely received its due, save by those specialists in the arcane and remote: medical historians. Medicine is a profoundly historical enterprise, deeply marked by and in continuous, if only implicit, dialogue with its own history. Historical reflection on medicine is therefore an especially compelling undertaking. A case in point: scratch almost any physician today and you find an abiding commitment to “Hippocmtic morality.”

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Special Section: Can Justice Endure Healthcare Reform?: From Patient Care to Policy (and Back Again)
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , Fall 1996 , pp. 511 - 518
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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