Last updated on:
10/29/2012 |
Author: ProCon.org
Hippocrates of Kos [Cos] Biography
- Title:
- Greek physician and philosopher
- Position:
- Not Clearly Pro or Con to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan”
“The Hippocratic Oath,” Hippocratic Corpus, date unknown, translated by Michael North, www.nlm.gov, 2002
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Greek physician and philosopher
- Education:
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- Considered to have been educated by his father, Heraclides, and his grandfather, dates unknown
- Considered to have been trained at the Asklepieion of Kos [Cos], dates unknown
- Other:
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- Born in Kos [Cos], Greece between 450 and 460 BCE
- Died in Larissa, Greece between 370 and 380 BCE
- Hippocrates is credited with writing “The Hippocratic Oath” but many scholars are unsure of the exact authorship. The oath is part of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of about 70 texts that are considered the oldest surviving complete medical books, but may have had had multiple authors including Hippocrates’ sons, students, and followers.