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Gac Med Mex 2004; 140 (1)
Professional Ethics of Physicians.
de Micheli-Serra A
Language: Spanish
References: 22
Page: 89-92
PDF size: 1109.24 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Sócrates is considered the great classic moralist, although
he was not the first to take care of man and morality.
Aristotele instituted ethics as an autonomous science and
clearly defined its fields, its methods and its purposes,
formulating the concept of “happy medium”. In the
Aristotelian methodology we find traces of Hippocrates,
who belived that the physician must always consider the
peculiar aspects and that the individual
characteristics’determinations can be reached by sensitivity.
Once these particularities have been proved, the physician
must relay on the “happy medium”. Only Stoics could
discover, and gradually elaborate, the concept of natural
law. Apparently they were the first to establish the classic
distinction between the theorical or ideal morality and the
practical morality, which is accessible to all people. They
refused to compare wisdom, entirely turned inward, with
the medical art, which does not constitute an aim by itself.
Modern authors assert that, with stoicism, the notion we
can denominated wisdom’s humanism rised. Today it is
admitted that “medicine is more than simply learning
medical data... Physicians must have a wisdom learned
from human finitude. They will need this wisdom to tackle
the health care policy debates in the nest decades”. This
would be a major cultural undertaking.
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