MEDICINE AS AN ART REQUIRING KNOWLEDGE AND VIRTUE
HEKİMLİK BİLGİ VE ERDEMİ GEREKTİREN BİR SANAT

Author : Nesrin KALE
Number of pages : 1-7

Abstract

Philosophical approach to medicine has currenlty been more essential reviving medical ethics and enriching the context of responsibility of a medical doctor. This philosophical richness makes the medicine as an art, ‘a holly art’. This awareness of medicine showing that medicine does not only consist of application of scientific knowledge and methodology technically dates back to very ancient times. The importance of knowledge and virtuousness in the history of medicine have been recognized for thousands of years. For instance, the comman ground in oaths belonging to the well known philosophers such as Galen, Laennee, Hufeland (1762-1836) is see the human with the spirit bodily integrity; thus, respecting the life and preventing damage, being virtuous. Gladius Galenos (131-200 B.C) who is also known Calinus in Islamic world, indicates that medicine and philosophy can never be separated from each other, a virtuos physician should be in the Hippocrate line, know the necessities in or

Keywords

Ethical values, medical ethics, history of medical ethics.

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