Ethics in Different Aspects
By Luis Antonio Carrillo Aguilar & Brenda Guillaumin Álvarez 2L Bioethics History It is commonly said that bioethics origins are placed in the year of 500 B.C. with the Hippocratic Oath. However, we can also consider the Hammurabi's Code from 1750 B.C. as the real begin of bioethics owing to all the information it contains about medical practice. Both were created in order to solve and have an answer to certain moral questions, these two are focused in doing the best for medicine and people. Hippocrates was the first one to separate medicine from religion, witchcraft, philosophy, magic, among others, this with the aim of doing from medicine a completely independent and self-sufficient discipline. Being as well the one who confront against the ideas which established that illnesses were provoked by celestial beings and demons. The oath makes new residents to swear, in few words, to act in an ethic and proper way, help patients invariably and always be conscious and take int