Medical Crises and Moral Renaissance
The concept of a principle of professional ethics focusing on the patient was not to appear fully formed until near our own time, although it was voiced in principle by the pre-exilic prophet Amos well before the Golden Age of Greece. Something like it appears in Luke 12:48 and in Roman writings of the first century A.D. Carleton B. Chapman Physicians, Law, and Ethics New York: New York University Press, 1984, p. XV-XVI.