Hippocratic Oath

^{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

We have entered the era of what I call “do harm medicine,” in which the concept of what constitutes harming the patient has become entirely malleable and subjective. I even wrote a book covering that subject. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
May 6, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

The Bioethicist Pandemic

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 6, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 23, 2002
Human Exceptionalism}

Taking Requests, Doing Harm

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 23, 2002
Human Exceptionalism}

The “Hippocratic Oath” sniffed Dr. Sherwin Nuland dismissively in the February 24, 2000 New England Journal of Medicine, “has been embraced over approximately the last 200 years far more as a symbol of professional cohesion than for its content … Ultimately, a physician’s conduct at the bedside is a matter of individual conscience.” What a frightening thought. When I tell Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 14, 2000
Human Exceptionalism}

The Death of Us

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 14, 2000
Human Exceptionalism}

The Definition of Death, Contemporary Controversies, edited by Stuart J. Youngner, Robert, M. Arnold, and Renie Schapiro. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 346 pp., $ 54 In just thirty years, bioethics has grown from a group of ruminating philosophers and theologians into one of the country’s most fiercely secularized and influential intellectual forces. Bioethicists sit on presidential advisory commissions, teach in Read More ›