PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tom Beauchamp, James Childress, Belmont Report
6 Feb 2018
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Chap 4 = the basic principles of bioethics: hippocratic paternalism, hippocrates of kos (460-399 bce) Greek physician of the age of pericles (classical greece: first to categorize illnesses as acute, chronic, endemic and epidemic, he and his followers were first to describe many diseases and medical conditions. He is given credit for the first description of clubbing of the fingers, an important diagnostic sign in chronic lung disease, lung cancer. Hippocratic oath: (cid:862)do (cid:374)o ha(cid:396)(cid:373)(cid:863): = i will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrong-doing. Neither will i administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so. The belmont report: the belmont report (1978) resulted from a conference of the same title, 1) medical professionals have the first duty to their patients, 2) the state has responsibility to protect its members. Consider a patient diagnosed with an acutely infected appendix.
