Medical Oaths, Program in Human Rights and Medicine in the Medical School at the University of Minnesota

Pledges and Oaths from the Past

OATH OF HIPPOCRATES AND ADAPTIONS

Bust of Hippocrates of Kos
 (3rd c. Roman  copy of Greek original)

Hippocratic Oath (5th-4th c. B.C.) - Greek

Hippocratic Oath - English

Hippocratic Oath - Latin (14th c.)

From the Oath According to Hippocrates in so far as a Christian May Swear It (Urbinus 64 mss, early Xp)

The Text of the Covenant Laid Down by Hippocrates (Lives of Physicians, Ibn abi Usayb`ia, d. 1269)

HEBREW OATH

The Oath of Asaph the Physician and Yohanan ben Zabda (6th c.?)

CHINESE OATHS AND CANONS

Sun Ssu-miao (581- 673) from "A Thousand Golden Remedies"

Chang Kao, The Medical Talks , 1179
Cautionary tales against professional faults (Summary)

Maxim of Kung Hsin (Ming Dynasty, 16th century)

Chen Shih-kung, Five Commandments and Ten Requirements (1617)

Current Pledges and Oaths

My Pledge to My Patients
Physicians for Compassionate Care (Oregon, 1996)

Fellowship Pledge of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (s.d.)