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Philosophical Medical Ethics: Its Nature and Significance - Proceedings of the Third Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Farmington, Connecticut, December 11-13, 1975 (Paperback, 1977 ed.)
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Philosophical Medical Ethics: Its Nature and Significance - Proceedings of the Third Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Farmington, Connecticut, December 11-13, 1975 (Paperback, 1977 ed.)
Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 3
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in a scientific way, and takes the patient and his family into his
confidence. Thus he learns something from the sufferer, and at the
same time instructs the invalid to the best of his power. He does
not give his prescriptions until he has won the patient's support,
and when he has done so, he steadilY aims at producing complete
restoration to health by persuading the sufferer in to compliance
(Laws 4. 720 b-e, [28]). This passage shows the perennial nature of
the problems of treating the patient as a person. It shows as well
the historical'depth of philosophical interest in medicine. The
history of philosophy includes more reflections upon medical ethics
than the casual reader might suspect. Many of these reflections are
pertinent to contemporary issues such as abortion and population
control. Plato, for example, recommends abortion in cases of incest
(Republic 5. 461c); and Aristotle argues for letting seriously
deformed children die, while forbidding infanticide as a means of
popUlation control, suggesting instead the use of early abortions.
'As to the exposure in rearing of children, let there be a law that
no deformed child shall live, but that on the ground of an excess
in the number of children . . . let abortion be procured before
sense and life have begun; what mayor may not be lawfully done in
these cases depends on the question of life and sensation'
(Politics VII, 16,335 b20-26, [4]).
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