Medical Terrorism and Hippocratic Philosophy
- Ariane Bilheran
- Feb 1, 2024
- 9 min read
Ariane Bilheran's Lucarne (Skylight), in Antipresse 429 - February 18, 2024.
Hippocrates reminds us that medicine is an art. Confusing medicine, which presupposes an empirical relationship between patient and doctor, with hard science is a misunderstanding that leads to the objectification of the other. Totalitarianism, which precisely seeks to objectify the human, necessarily engenders an ideology of "scientific" medicine bordering on sectarian blindness.
"Medicine and philosophy are sisters; one frees the soul from passions, the other removes diseases from the body."
Hippocrates, On the Medical Art.
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