Oath of Citizenship

The Arab hospitals on the other hand took a different approach and helped anyone who needed medical assistance. This sort of ethical approach to care by doctors is the foundation for concepts such as the Hippocratic Oath and is still with modern medicine today. The first American hospitals called Almshouses were first established by William Penn in Philadelphia in 1713. Over time as medical facilities became the norm in communities The American Medical Association…

The Hippocratic oath begins with outright invocation of the gods; the first line of the oath is “I swear by Apollo the healer” (Chadwick and Mann). The close relation between gods and medicine continue as the oath goes on. Following the oath was entering into a covenant with gods and deviating from it would risk divine retribution. In the oath, Hippocrates reveals that the medical practices and religion go hand in hand in the ancient Greek society. However, in modern society medical practices…

Setting the Privacy Boundary Jacob Silverman the author of Terms of Service has a chapter titled The Myth of Privacy. In this chapter he explores the phenomena of data collection and sales by various companies and the impact of that data collection on the consumer. The essence of the chapter can be summed in the quote of Kevin Kelley of Wired Magazine which read; “Privacy is mostly an illusion, but you’ll have as much of it as you want to pay for (Silverman, 2015, p. 281).” Data mining is…

A common moral argument against Physician Assisted Suicide is that it disobeys the Hippocratic Oath: the set of moral guidelines for any doctor or administrator of medicine. The section which is specifically referenced by such opponents is “Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course” (INSERT CITATION). However, the Hippocratic Oath (the original version, in particular) fails to provide an effective basis for opposing PAS because it is…

The film, Miss Evers’ Boys was about an inhumane study of African American men suffering from syphilis. The film evolved around Eunice Evers, a nurse in a local Tuskegee hospital and her statement about the “Tuskegee study”. Dr. Brodus, the head doctor of the local Tuskegee hospital along with Nurse Evers were given fund to treat men with syphilis or what they called “bad blood” (Benedetti, Fishburne, Kavanagh, Konwiser & Sargent, 1997). These men were not very educated, and their health…

Caduceus Symbol In 1902, the Caduceus was adopted and worn in the uniforms of U.S. Army medical officers. The Caduceus is a symbol for doctors and depicted as staff with two snakes wrapped around it with wings. Through its adoption in the 19th century, the Caduceus has been given a role of a symbol of doctor’s around the world, not only does it portray doctor’s, but it conveys the implication of a connection between Hermes, the Greek messenger God, this implicates a subject of sending good…

Many believe that he wrote neither the Corpus or the Oath, however there are many theories and thoughts about who did. Some believe that there was possibly more than one Hippocrates and they were actually all descendants of the original one who just continued to carry on his original theories and works. Other believes that some of students wrote the Corpus and the Oath yet put it under his name to dedicate it to their teacher. The Hippocratic Oath however, was believed to have been taken by…

Today there stands a city that has had thousands of years preserved underneath its streets. Archeologists and historians are working together to find out the story of this city, but often times the translation of academic findings to the rest of the world is not fulfilled. In popular culture today there are many gross interpretations of roman life that misguide the common consumer of information to get a terrible understanding of what roman life was like. There is a man though that is trying to…

What is the most significant complication when people judge before something occurs? Death, according to William Shakespeare. In Act 3 there are two speeches given, one by Decius Brutus and the other by Mark Antony. These two funeral speeches in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare are similar in organization although differ in the message. To begin, William Shakespeare is creative in differing the positions where the men stand during the funeral speeches. Brutus stands above…

In order to avenge Caesar, Mark Antony turns a shocked, confused crowd of mourners into an angry mob of rioters by using persuasive techniques. The main component of Antony’s speech, Pathos, appealed to the commoners by striking an emotional spot inside them, trying to turn the fickle crowd against Brutus. Antony displayed the persuasive technique of Pathos by repeating words, showing them Caesar’s body, and presenting Caesar’s will. In the beginning of Antony’s speech, he spoke of Brutus as…