Goic A
Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Medicina, Santiago.
Bol Oficina Sanit Panam. 1993 Aug;115(2):140-7.
It has been suggested that the Hippocratic oath is no longer relevant in the context of modern morals and current medical practice and that it continues to be administered simply out of blind adherence to tradition. Such judgments may be the result of too superficial an analysis of the oath. The substance of the oath is its ethical content, while the style is shaped by its cultural and historical roots and its literary form. This article carefully examines the Hippocratic oath in order to elucidate the ethical values it contains and consider whether or not these continue to have relevance for contemporary physicians.
有人认为，希波克拉底誓言在现代道德和当前医疗实践的背景下已不再适用，其仍被沿用仅仅是出于对传统的盲目遵从。这样的判断可能是对该誓言分析过于肤浅的结果。誓言的实质是其伦理内涵，而其风格则由其文化和历史根源以及文学形式所塑造。本文仔细审视希波克拉底誓言，以阐明其所蕴含的伦理价值，并思考这些价值对当代医生是否仍然具有相关性。
