XIIIth Colloquium Hippocraticum: What's Hippocratic about the Hippocratics?

第十三届希波克拉底座谈会：希波克拉底到底是什么？

• 批准号: 0751294
• 负责人: Lesley Dean-Jones
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-02-15 至 2009-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0751294&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: XIIIth; Colloquium; Hippocraticum; What; Hippocratic

This colloquium funded by the Science and Society Program addresses the question of what is Hippocratic about the Hippocratics. For more than two millennia the Hippocratic Oath has served to guide physicians and reassure patients that the power of medical knowledge would be used for the good, but even doctors who swear by the Oath have at best a hazy idea of what is "Hippocratic" about it. Scholars of ancient medicine use the term to refer to a group of about 70 medical treatises from the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. which were collected in antiquity under the name Hippocrates (a collection which is now referred to as the Hippocratic Corpus), though even at the time it was recognized that they were not all written by the same man. The authors of the Corpus argue with each other over theories, therapies, pharmacy and even ethics. There has been a great deal of scholarly activity documenting and explaining these differences but to date very little attention has been paid to what it is that the treatises have in common that led to them being selected for the Corpus. It is not simply a rational or scientific approach to medicine - the belief that all diseases arise from processes in the physical world which conform to natural immutable laws and that patients can be treated and cured within these laws without recourse to the supernatural - because we have examples of authors who shared these rational beliefs yet were excluded from the Corpus. By focusing on similarities and groupings within the Corpus the Colloquium will elucidate concepts of collegiality, collaboration and progress present at the very earliest stages of the medical profession to balance the current picture of egotistical competition.These issues are of interest to many members of the medical and wider community, especially in the areas of ethics and therapy. The Hippocratic Oath is still cited in debates on abortion and euthanasia without many people beyond the scholarly community knowing that the prohibitions in the ancient Oath are not, on the surface at least, a blanket condemnation of these practices. Moreover the Oath also contains a prohibition against surgery, which is obviously not applicable to modern medicine and was equally irrelevant to almost all the authors of the Hippocratic Corpus. If some provisions of the original Oath can be ignored what, if any, is the relevance of the document to modern doctors? In the context of the Colloquium it will be seen that the same question was applicable to physicians who practiced two and a half millennia ago and will strengthen the historical identity of the medical profession.The Colloquium is a triennial conference that has been meeting since 1972. This is the first time any US institution has received the invitation to host. The Colloquium will be a three-day conference held at the University of Texas. The topic will be addressed in about 30 scholarly papers with ample time for questions and discussion from the audience after each paper. The presenters will come primarily from the US and Europe, but there will also be representatives from Canada, Asia, Australasia and South Africa. The Proceedings will be published in a volume a year or two after the Colloquium.

这项由科学与社会计划资助的座谈会解决了关于希波克氏症是什么问题的问题。 两千年来，希波克拉底誓言一直在指导医生和保证患者，医学知识的力量将用于善，但即使是宣誓就职的医生，也充其量对此充其量也对此有一个朦胧的想法。 古代医学学者使用该术语来指出一组卑诗省5和4世纪的大约70本医学论文。这些以希波克拉底（Hippocrates）的名字（现在称为希波克拉底语料库的收藏）收集，尽管即使在当时也没有认识到他们并非全部由同一个人撰写。 该语料库的作者彼此争论理论，疗法，药房甚至道德规范。 有很多学术活动记录和解释这些差异，但是迄今为止，很少有人关注这些论文的共同点导致他们被选为语料库。 这不仅仅是一种理性或科学的医学方法 - 相信所有疾病都是由物理世界中的过程引起的，这些过程符合自然不变的法律，并且可以在这些法律中对其进行治疗和治愈，而无需求助于超自然的律师 - 因为我们有作者的例子，这些典型的作者却共享了这些理性信念，但被排除在科目中。 通过专注于语料库中的相似性和分组，座谈会将在医学界最早的阶段阐明同事，协作和进步的概念，以平衡当前自我竞争的情况。这些问题对医疗和更广泛的社区的许多成员都感兴趣，尤其是在道德和治疗领域。 关于堕胎和安乐死的辩论，希波克拉底誓言仍然被引用，没有许多人以外的人知道古代誓言中的禁令至少在表面上并不是对这些做法的笼统谴责。 此外，宣誓还禁止进行手术，这显然不适用于现代医学，几乎与希波克拉底族的所有作者无关。 如果可以忽略原始誓言的某些规定，如果有的话，文件与现代医生的相关性是什么？ 在座谈会的背景下，将会看到同样的问题适用于两年半前实践并将加强医学界的历史身份的医生。座谈会是自1972年以来一直在开会的三年会议。这是美国任何机构首次收到​​主持人的邀请。 座谈会将是在德克萨斯大学举行的为期三天的会议。 该主题将在大约30篇学术论文中讨论，并在每篇论文后有足够的时间提问和讨论。 演讲者将主要来自美国和欧洲，但也将有来自加拿大，亚洲，大洋洲和南非的代表。诉讼将在座谈会后的一两年中发表。