Author Description

This book deals with medical ethics under the Hippocratic physicians of ancient Greece, for whom good health was perfection in nature, the brilliant archiaters and their schools of the later Roman Empire and after, the medical clergy who introduced a new attitude to suffering, and the laboratory doctors of emergent industrial society. In the author's view, modern treatment, whether state or private, has yet to alter radically the requirements of a successful doctor-patient the difference lies only in how these requirements are met.