Raymond Tallis

Hippocratic Oaths

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  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    Knowledge – articulated or propositional awareness formulated into factual information and abstract general principles – is utterly different from the sentience that all conscious animals (including human beings) possess.
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    It is hardly surprising, then, that truly scientific medicine is less than a hundred years old.
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    There is therefore a paradox: as medicine-takers we are not organisms but complex selves; but the effectiveness of the medicine we take is owed to a view of ourselves as organisms
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    from their biology.
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    medicine’s triumphs are rooted in a biological understanding of sickness while the science, the art, the humanity of medical care is a supreme expression of the distance of humans
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    therapeutic action draws on fathomless
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    aquifers of implicit knowledge, understanding, custom and practice.
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    What is more, it is part of a tapestry of social arrangements ensuring the dissemination of expertise in the prescription and administration of medicines, involving the division and sub-division of labour, the development of institutions, the creation of numerous forms of material infrastructure, and networks of agreements based on trust or contracts.
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    Osler’s assertion: there is a vast cultural hinterland to the popping of the most ordinary pill.
  • eadyidihhas quoted7 years ago
    Hippocratic Oaths does not pretend be a comprehensive account of medicine or even of its current troubles.
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