The Virtuous Physician: A Brief Medical History of Moral Inquiry from Hippocrates to COVID-19 - Bog af Elliott B. Martin - Hardback

The Virtuous Physician: A Brief Medical History of Moral Inquiry from Hippocrates to COVID-19 - Elliott B. Martin

The Virtuous Physician: A Brief Medical History of Moral Inquiry from Hippocrates to COVID-19 traces the origin and development of practical moral inquiry as viewed through a lens of medical history. The cornerstone of the book is a translation of, and commentary on, the second century BC pseudo-Hippocratic Greek text, Precepts, a work not translated into English since 1921, which introduces the idea of the 'virtuous physician', and the 'art' of medicine. Precepts describes the ideal way of being..