HSS 4107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pythagoreanism, John Stuart Mill, Hippocratic Oath

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 4107
• Professor: Stuart Chambers

Document Summary

1. general views of 800 b. c century greek healers/seers towards disease. More like magicians than actual doctors or healers. Looked at irrelevant things like the pattern of flying birds to predict the next 3 months in terms of famine: general views of 500 b. c century greek physicians towards healing (hippocratic tradition) Medicine takes a humanistic look, it becomes empirical and rational. No one is deferring to a deity to heal the sick. You read all bodily signs for explanation. Humanism is the only basis for medicine from now on. Doctors become a bit of a politician (cid:862)you"re (cid:272)oughi(cid:374)g a lot, (cid:272)ould (cid:271)e a sig(cid:374) of (cid:271)la(cid:272)k lu(cid:374)gs(cid:863). The do(cid:272)tor (cid:373)ight (cid:374)ot k(cid:374)o(cid:449) for sure that the patie(cid:374)t"s lu(cid:374)gs tur(cid:374) (cid:271)la(cid:272)k, (cid:271)ut they are nudging the patient to go into a certain path of non-smoking. Greek medicine is an art as it is a science. Euthanasia means: a good noble and easy death 500 bc.