Happenings & Cogitations

Sunday, 08 November 2009

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    Medicine in Society: Historical Essays
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    The Hippocractic Oath

    "I swear by Apollo the Physician, by Aesculapius, and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgement this oath.
    To hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, without fee or indenture; to impart precept, oral instruction, and all other instruction to my own sons, the sons of my teacher, and to indentured pupils.
    I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and my judgement, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing.
    I will not administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I give a woman a pessary to cause abortion. But I will keep pure and holy in both my life and my art.
    I will not use the knife on sufferers from stone, but I will give place to such as are craftsmen in this art.
    Into whatsoever houses I enter I will endeavour to help the sick and I will abstain from all intentional wrongdoing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman whether bond or free.
    And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, or in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad I will never divulge it, holding such things to be as secrets which are holy.
    If I carry out this oath and break it not, may I gain forever a good reputation among all men for my life and my art; but if I transgress it, may the opposite be my portion.”

    (Oh, so that's why they don't have doctors swear to it anymore.)

Sunday, 04 October 2009

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Booklist - 2009

Flatland
(Edwin A. Abbott)
Institutes of the Christian Religion
(John Calvin)
The Supper of the Lamb
(Robert Farrar Capon)
Sailing Alone Around the Room
(Billy Collins)
Matilda
(Roald Dahl)
Holy the Firm
(Annie Dillard)
The Game of Kings
(Dorothy Dunnett)
The Doctrine of the Christian Life: A Theology of Lordship
(John M. Frame)
Straightedge Youth: Complexities and Contradictions of a Subculture
(John F. Gallagher)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
(Seth Grahame-Smith)
Original Sin
(P. D. James)
Against Christianity
The Kingdom and the Power
(Peter J. Leithart)
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength

(C. S. Lewis)
Angela's Ashes
'Tis

(Frank McCourt)
1984
(George Orwell)
The Orator's Education
(Quintilian)
Gilead
(Marilynne Robinson)
The Catcher in the Rye
(J.D. Salinger)
De Profundis
The Picture of Dorian Gray

(Oscar Wilde)
Heaven Misplaced
Her Hand in Marriage
Reforming Marriage
Standing on the Promises

(Doug Wilson)
The Fruit of Her Hands
Praise Her In the Gates

(Nancy Wilson)
Surprised by Hope:Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
(N. T. Wright)