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12th Century-15th Century - Christian Views on Euthanasia Reinforce Hippocratic Oath. The ascendancy of Christianity, with its view that human life is a trust from God, reinforced the views of the Hippocratic school [which forbid euthanasia].
Should euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide be legal? Legalization Legalization: Medical Perspectives Legalization: Lawmakers’ Views Vulnerable Groups Hippocratic Oath Legal Right Slippery Slope Palliative Care Physician Obligation Financial Motivations 1. Legalization “The right to die should be a matter of personal choice. We are able to choose all kinds of things in life from who we ...
12th Century-15th Century – Christian Views on Euthanasia Reinforce Hippocratic Oath Posted on July 23, 2013 by The ascendancy of Christianity, with its view that human life is a trust from God, reinforced the views of the Hippocratic school [which forbid euthanasia].
Although the Hippocratic Oath prohibited doctors from giving ‘a deadly drug to anybody, not even if asked for,’ or from suggesting such a course of action, few ancient Greek or Roman physicians followed the oath faithfully.
The deepest ethical principle restraining the physician’s power is not the autonomy or freedom of the patient; neither is it his own compassion or good intention. Rather, it is the dignity and mysterious power of human life itself, and therefore, also what the Oath calls the purity and holiness of life and art to which he has sworn devotion.”
“The Hippocratic tradition, whose core is the Hippocratic Oath, prohibits the killing of a human being, just as it forbids any aid in suicide (in present-day terminology in ‘physician assisted suicide’): ‘To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death.’
“The aim of medicine is, according to the [Hippocratic] Oath, to heal and not to kill. The Oath made clear what it means to ‘do no harm.’ The meaning of ‘injury or wrongdoing’ was named specifically as abortion, euthanasia, sexual abuse, and breach of confidentiality.
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“[A]s a physician and medical ethicist, I believe that MAID/PAS flies in the face of a 2,000-year imperative of Hippocratic medicine: ‘Do no harm to the patient.’… I believe that the ambivalence and discomfort experienced by a substantial percentage of PAS-participating physicians is directly connected to the Hippocratic Oath ...