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Abandoning the Prime Directive?

In his Epidemics, the great healer Hippocrates gave this advice: ‘As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least to do no harm.’ The Roman physician Galen said it more compactly, as ‘primum non nocere,’ meaning, ‘first of all, do no harm.’
Since the era of Hippocrates, the keystone of [...]

November 7th, 2006