The case when anatomist and surgeon Gaspare Tagliacozzi offended God. An endless clash between religion and medical ethics.
Journal Title: National Journal of Integrated Research in Medicine - Year 2012, Vol 3, Issue 5
Abstract
Since the early days of religious medicine, for a therapist to disobey the priests’ views was supposed to be a sin, requiring a sacrifice to the offended God. No eminence of gifts, no splendor of reputation could shelter from the wrath of the offended divine, and the soul of such a physician should go unpardoned into eternity [1]. Medicine was evolved into a science soon after the Hippocratics sterilized medicine from superstition, introducing at the same time medical ethics. In such a way, medical practice was guided to a non-harmful concept during its exercise. However, religion had its own opinion. Various acts like dissection and abortion were prohibited [2]. Medicophilosophers of ancient Greece, physicians, and scholars of the Byzantine era alongside the remarkable Arabian School of Medicine gave to the world a more convincing hope for a cure. Meanwhile, there were cases, when the church felt otherwise. Such an example was the Catholic Church during its dark ages and the case of the Italian anatomist and surgeon Gaspare Tagliacozzi (1545-1599) .
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Gregory Tsoucalas; Eleni Panagouli; Vasilios Thomaidis
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