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Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews, 2018 In the patient-physician encounter, physicians hone their skills while alleviating the patient’s suffering. Both benefit. Leaning on the work of Hippocrates, Darwin, and William Osler, the authors sketch out the case for honoring patients as ...
Robert E. Becker, Mary V. Seeman
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The ethical legacy of Hippocrates [PDF]
Scripta Medica, 2020 The text analyses the ethical content of the Hippocratic Oath, evaluates its significance for modern-day medicine and answers the question of how relevant it is for today's physicians.
Stojanović Goran
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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Hippocratic Medicine in China: Comparison with a 9th Century Chinese Manual on Bone Setting
Journal of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Rehabilitation, 2014 Chinese history annals recorded cultural interchange between China and the Roman Empire during the Han dynasty. The first medical missionaries were Nestorian Christians from the Middle East who arrived in China in ad 635.
Fu Louis
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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The Concept of Harm in Medical Ethics
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The concept of harm is central to medical ethics. In particular, it is frequently used in ethical deliberation about clinical cases and harm‐benefit analyses. Despite its significance, there has been surprisingly little discussion in practice about conceptual approaches and the nature of harm in medical ethics analyses.
Marie‐Christine Fritzsche +1 more
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Skull trauma in Egyptian and Hippocratic Medicine [PDF]
Gesnerus, 1993 To compare the treatment of skull trauma in Egyptian and Hippocratic medicine, the author reviews the pertinent passages of the Smith Papyrus and of the Hippocratic Corpus. By examining the treatment of similar cases reported in the two documents, it is concluded that the Egyptian physician, with his more conservative approach, pursued a more effective
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Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT COVID‐19 intensified ethical tensions between clinicians' duty to care and self‐protection amid PPE shortages. We explored frontline healthcare professionals' perspectives in Maputo, Mozambique. Semi‐structured interviews with healthcare professionals at four hospitals (April–June 2022) were recorded in Portuguese, transcribed, and ...
Ângela Alface +5 more
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Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, EarlyView.Abstract Background Migraine is a neurological disorder with well‐established diagnostic criteria. In its current formulation, migraine is a modern‐day diagnosis, whereas descriptions consistent with migraine may date back to ancient civilizations. Objective This study aimed to investigate whether symptoms consistent with migraine without aura, as ...
Bulent Diri +5 more
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Physicians of the Body Versus Therapists of the Word: Reflections On Medicine and Sophistry
Peitho, 2013 The aim of the present paper is to investigate the connection between ancient medicine and sophistry at the end of 5th century B.C. Beginning with analyses of some passages from the De vetere medicina (VM), De natura hominis (NH) and De arte, the article
Roberta Ioli
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