Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Is it ethical to bring religion into medicine?

  • Is it ethical to bring religion into medicine?

    Patrick GuinanChicago, Illinois, USA Over 200 years ago Voltaire wrote that one half of metaphysics was known to everybody and that the other half will never be known. It is by no means certain that ethics has yet reached the same high degree of development. At the beginnings of recorded history, the priests and the…