Philosophical Medical Ethics: Its Nature and Significance: Proceedings of the Third Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Farmington, Connecticut, December 11-13, 1975

in a scientific way, and takes the patient and his family into his confidence. Thus he learns something from the sufferer, and at the same time instructs the invalid to the best of his power. He does not give his prescriptions until he has won the patient's support, and when he has done so, he steadilY aims at producing complete restoration to health by persuading the sufferer in to compliance (Laws 4. 720 b-e, [28]). This passage shows the perennial nature of the problems of treating the p...