The idea of reviewing the ethical concerns of ancient medicine with
an eye as to how they might instruct us about the extremely lively
disputes of our own contemporary medicine is such a natural one
that it surprises us to real ize how very slow we have been to
pursue it in a sustained way_ Ideologues have often seized on the
very name of Hippocrates to close off debate about such matters as
abortion and euthanasia - as if by appeal to a well-known and
sacred authority that no informed person would care or dare to
oppose_ And yet, beneath the polite fakery of such reference, we
have deprived our selves of a familiarity with the genuinely
'unsimple' variety of Greek and Roman reflections on the great
questions of medical ethics. The fascination of recovering those
views surely depends on one stunning truism at least: humans sicken
and die; they must be cared for by those who are socially endorsed
to specialize in the task; and the changes in the rounds of human
life are so much the same from ancient times to our own that the
disputes and agreements of the past are remarkably similar to those
of our own."
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