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ILZA VEITH, M.A., Ph.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1957;100(3):504-512.

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In 1823 the great German physician C. W. Hufeland wrote a brief treatise, strikingly entitled, "On the Physician's Power over Life and Death." ¹ In it he attempted to define the unique relationship that binds the patient to his physician and, conversely, the physician to his patients. Indeed, Hufeland felt that this relationship, based on confidence, dependence, and need, was such an integral part of the successful practice of medicine that he inserted his maxims on the doctor's ethical obligations into his medical textbook, "Enchiridion medicum."

In the late 19th century, when Japanese medicine began to follow the German pattern, a group of leading physicians adopted Hufeland's work and extracted from it the ethical precepts as a basis for a Japanese code of medical ethics. While the Japanese gave grateful credit to the German author, they were obviously quite unaware of Hufeland's own source of inspiration and of the fact . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Chicago

Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 13, 1957.

Supported by a grant from the U. S. Public Health Service (Institute of Mental Health).

This paper was read as part of a symposium on the "Growth of Medicine" at Northwestern University Medical School Feb. 5, 1957. It will appear in the winter issue of the Quarterly Bulletin of Northwestern University Medical School.

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