"Miles's reading of the oath is illuminating." - New England Journal of Medicine " The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of Medicine contains a wealth of background material. It is concise, well written, and intellectually nourishing, a road map for exploration into antiquity. It is a must for scholars and an interesting read for anyone concerned with medical ethics. -- JAMA "This is a book that every medical student should read cover to cover as should any physician or allied health care worker. Indeed, it is a book that the layman would find profitable, informative and in places amusing." --Erich H. Loewy, American Journal of Bioethics "Despite the influence of the Hippocratic Oath on Western medicine, few comprehensive analyses of the Oath have been performed.

As a result, this text is an important contribution to the medical ethics literature. It is easy to read, comprehensive, and well referenced." -- Mayo Clinical Proceedings ".works through its phrases with admirable skill. Miles reading of the oath is illuminating. He finds, as few commentators have, a dimension of social justice in the oath by distinguishing between the public and private activities of the Greek physician, both of which were governed by concepts of beneficence and justice. He concludes with a pertinent insight: noting that the oath, unlike modern codes and principles was composed to be proclaimed in the first person, he writes that its "authors spoke explicitly of the necessity for each physician to reveal his professional moral commitments. The first person voice may be part of the energy behind the Oaths endurance.

" Finally, teachers of medical ethics may appreciate Miles's outline of a course designed around the phrases of the oath." -- New England Journal of Medicine "The author's use of clinical vignettes to provide a modern application of the Oath is engaging and successful. This book is unique to the field. Little has been written about the relevane of the Oath to modern medicine, as many have thought the Oath was irrelevant to the practice of modern medicine. This book provides a very serious, compelling challenge to that assumption."-- Doody's.