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By Nigel M. de S. Cameron. 182 pp. Wheaton, Ill., Crossway Books, 1992. $11.95. ISBN 0-89107-645-X.

What does it mean to be a good physician? Nigel Cameron, a theologian at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in the United Kingdom, attempts to answer this complex but timely moral question by examining the relevance of the Hippocratic oath. Although many physicians today probably recited the oath at their commencement ceremonies, it is likely that few appreciate the radical departure that Hippocratic medicine represented at its inception and how its values are, according to the author, in danger of being subverted.

The book begins with a discussion of the primary tenets of the oath, the proscription against killing and the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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