Table of Contents

1: Ground Rounds
PART I Physicians, Who Are You?
2: Creators
3: Teachers
4: Learners
PART II To What Are Physicians Committed?
5: The Health of the Public
6: Deadly Drugs
7: Abortion
8: Integrity
9: Errors
10: Consent and Truth-Telling
11: Exploiting Patients
12: Discretion in Speech
PART III In What Way Are Physicians Accountable?
13: A Trustworthy Profession
Afterword: The Oath for Our Time
Appendix A: Time Line
Appendix B: The Oath as a Curricular Outline for Medical Ethics

Reviews

" The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of Medicine contains a wealth of background material. It is concise, well written, and intellectually nourishing, a road map for exploration into antiquity. It is a must for scholars and an interesting read for anyone concerned with medical ethics. --JAMA
"Despite the influence of the Hippocratic Oath on Western medicine, few comprehensive analyses of the Oath have been performed. As a result, this text is an important contribution to the medical ethics literature. It is easy to read, comprehensive, and well referenced." --Mayo Clinical Proceedings
"Miles's reading of the oath is illuminating." -New England Journal of Medicine
"...works through its phrases with admirable skill. . . . Miles's reading of the oath is illuminating. . . . He finds, as few commentators have, a dimension of social justice in the oath by distinguishing between the public and private activities of the Greek physician, both of which were governed by concepts of beneficence and justice. He concludes with a pertinent insight: noting that the oath, unlike modern codes and principles was composed to be
proclaimed in the first person, he writes that its "authors spoke explicitly of the necessity for each physician to reveal his professional moral commitments. The first person voice may be part of the
energy behind the Oaths endurance." Finally, teachers of medical ethics may appreciate Miles's outline of a course designed around the phrases of the oath." --New England Journal of Medicine