NEW BOOK
THE LEGACY OF MEDICINE
I have the
pleasure to inform that my book entitled “The Legacy of Medicine” (A Tradição da Medicina), which analyzes
the Hippocratic Oath, was recently published in Brazil. The book centers around
an interpretation of the Oath and its relevance, controversies and necessity
for contemporary Medical Education (Book I); several essays on Virtue Based
Ethics (Book II); and an example of Medical Humanities education, which was
created back in 2012 as the Seminar of Philosophy Applied on Medicine (Book
III).
The
contents of The Legacy of Medicine are the following:
Book I
1. The
Hippocratic Oath
2. The
Hippocratic Tradition
3. The
interpretative key for the Oath
4.
Mythology as an invocation of human attitudes and possibilities
5. Masters
and Apprentices
6. Good
corporatism and Greek sexism
7. Brotherhood
of the responsible doctors
8. Cardinal
principles
9.
Euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the value of life
10.
Abortion and human life
11. Virtue
Ethics
12. Self-awareness
13. Medical
benevolence
14. Medicine,
mores and society
15. Human
dignity
16.
Reliability and secrecy
17.
Commitment, blessings and curses
18. The
problem of autonomy
19. The
furious machine gun of Robert Veatch
20.
Conclusions
Book II
1. The
forming of a virtuous physician
2. The
moral community of medicine
3. Confidence
in trust
4.
Compassion
5. Phronesis
6. Justice
7.
Fortitude
8.
Temperance
9.
Integrity and dignity
Book III
1. Seminar
of Philosophy Applied on Medicine (SEPHAM)
2. The lack
of education in liberal arts
3. The
Aristotelian four discourses in Medicine
4. Liberal arts learning
5. The
structure of the SEPHAM
Posface
Bibliography
“This book shows the indelible connection
between Medicine and morality. One should recognize that the medical art will
never be reduced to mere technic, and that the good physician is not only the
person who masters scientific knowledge and high skills, but the one who also
knows and practices the good and the righteous deeds. In one of the book’s last
passages, Angotti condense his message: What the physician should do in face of
all these challenges here exposed? The first step is to practice the good
medicine. Love the patient, be charitable, have compassion. The second step is
the dedicated study to treat the patient with the best of medical skills but
also to be a great humanist in the classical sense. It is necessary to reach
for knowledge in the fields of Medicine, Philosophy, History, Social Sciences
etc. As the great humanist physician José de Letamendi y Manjarrés said: ‘The physician
who only knows medicine, doesn’t know medicine at all.’ This saying of
Letamendi needs to be truly apprehended by our medical professionals.”
The book is
distributed by Monergismo Publishing House in Brazil at:
Hélio
Angotti-Neto
