Hippocratic Oath

Hate speech in “Animal farm” and “Priscilla the Cambodian” Hate speech is used as one of the apparatuses employed both in “Animal farm” by George Orwell and “Pricilla the Cambodian” by Rattawut Lapcharoensap. Although it occurs in different circumstances and contexts, the two stories share some ideas in common which significantly reflect the act of their characters as well as the societies, which will be explained further. Hate speech is one of the communication methods being used to attack a…

Who gets to decide what is appropriate for an individual to wear during not only during the taking of oath of Canadian citizenship, but at any time in any place within the boundaries of our supposedly multicultural Canada? While this is not the first time they issues regarding dress have arisen within Canada, the case of Zunera Ishaq, drew considerable attention in 2015. In large part to the proximity to the federal election and a potential rising tide of Islamaphobia which began to permeate…

1), David exhibited another painting that, similarly to “The Oath of the Horatii,” used Roman history to stir revolutionary fervor: “The Lictors Bring Brutus the Bodies of His Sons.” David was originally commissioned by the monarchy to paint Coriolanus, an aristocratic leader, being restrained by his family from…

Jacques Louis David was both a genuine artist as well as an apologist and propagandist for violence. Genuine means to be actual, real, or true and David’s art displays this well. David wanted France to snap out of its slow decline into decadence and instead enter a golden age. He believed France could achieve this by striving to be more like the Roman republic. At first, he stood by the side of the royal family, even offering to paint portraits of them. However, when the revolution began to take…

Few artists have had a greater influence upon the course of portraiture and history painting than the French Neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David. His canvasses evoked heavy emotion simply not found in the preceding frivolous Rococo era, a severity the artist gravitated to as various governments traded off. First, the conflicting grandeur and inequity of Louis XVI’s Ancien Régime, then the tumultuous French Revolution, and finally the magnificently short lived rule of Napoleon. Ultimately,…

the Hippocratic Oath. Physician assisted suicide must be banned because it directly contradicts the Hippocratic Oath. The Hippocratic Oath is an oath taken by physicians historically to uphold specific ethical standards. World renowned and well respected physician, scientist and educator, Dr. Leon Kass believes physician assisted suicide is wrong. According to Dr. Kass, “the prohibition against killing patients stands as the first promise of self-restraint sworn to in the Hippocratic Oath…

the same when it comes to the controversial. Euthanasia allows a physician and the patient to choose the option to control the patient’s right to live or die. There are arguments supporting the idea that such an act would be in violation of the Hippocratic Oath that all physicians swear on, specifically the theme that they would “do no harm”. Furthermore, arguments can be made regarding the physician’s authority and role as a medical profession being compromised and disregarded as result of…

they believe a person shouldn’t be able to take their lives and suffer through the pain, knowing they are going to die anyway. Euthanasia should be legal because people should get the right to end their lives, legal in some religions, and the “Hippocratic Oath”.…

medicine is the relief of suffering. In offering an understanding, he strongly claims that it is the patient that suffers and therefore is the one to say what is his or her source of suffering. The physician’s job is to relieve this suffering. The Oath makes it clear that physicians should not harm their patient, however, in the cases where healing and caring are no longer possible- what is then harm? Is it putting a patient on a life-saving machine while they suffer to a painful death or…

The HeLa incident at John Hopkins Medical Institute in the 1950’s highlighted the importance of informed consent in the medical field, it provides a strong example for the ethical and legal repercussions for disobeying the process and violating a patient’s unalienable human rights, and furthermore reinforces its need. Informed consent is the undeniable prerequisite for a patient to be fully informed of a procedure and all of its aspects. This process is a necessary and pragmatic approach to…