Hippocrates’ Oath: Commitment and Community
| Autor: | Christopher Tollefsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Hippocratic Oath
Philosophy of mind Philosophy of science Oath 05 social sciences Performative utterance 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 050105 experimental psychology Philosophy of language Philosophy symbols.namesake Law 060302 philosophy Medical profession symbols 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology |
| Zdroj: | Philosophia. 49:905-912 |
| ISSN: | 1574-9274 0048-3893 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11406-020-00271-w |
| Popis: | In Hippocrates’ Oath and Asclepius’ Snake: The Birth of the Medical Profession, Thomas Cavanaugh focuses on performative aspects of the taking of the oath which bear upon the formation of that community we identify as the medical profession. In this paper, I suggest that we can go further than Cavanaugh does in identifying what the Hippocratic oath makes possible. Given its particular content and what it communicates, the oath makes possible, to a degree few other oaths could, and in a way which might be significantly impaired by the absence of an oath, the form of community we have come to call the physician-patient relationship. In Section I, I will discuss Cavanaugh’s treatment of the oath’s relationship to the community of medical professionals. In Section II, I discuss at a relatively abstract level the relationship between communication and community. In Section III I show how the oath can additionally constitute the primordial moment in the existence of the physician-patient relationship. |
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