De ce autorul celebrului „Jurământ” nu este Hipocrate?
Why is the author of the famous “Oath” not Hippocrates?

Summary/Abstract: The “Oath of Hippocrates” sets the behavioral parameters in which the medical act takes place, as well as everything related to medicine, “the noblest of all arts.” The moral and legal norms stated in the oath concern the relations between the doctor and his colleagues, between the doctor and the patient, as well as his family (“primum non nocere”, confidentiality, fairness etc.), taking responsibility for the given treatment and prohibition to contribute in any way to the suppression of life. Hippocrates’ writings were strongly influenced by the philosophy of his times. Even though he did not have an original philosophical system, he was so interested in philosophy that he wrote the famous Aphorisms and The Oath, along with three other works on ethics: The Doctor, The Law, Medical Decorum, writings that reveal his predilection for ethics combined with medical empiricism. Hippocrates wrote several works, although historical information does not confirm that all could be attributed to him. The issue of the author of the famous Oath of Hippocrates is still controversial today. Historical, literary and philosophical methods have found that the style and ideas contained in this text are inconsistent with Hippocrates’ time and philosophy, with great differences between The Oath and other works that are confirmed as belonging to the Greek doctor. Although essential among the promoters of bioethical norms, Hippocrates cannot be considered the archetype of moral and deontological principles, and the oath attributed to him must necessarily be interpreted in the context of the ethos of the time in which it was written.

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