Science, Medicine, and Religion in and after the Holocaust

Science, medicine, and religion are powerful social forces. The Hippocratic Oath itself, the foundational document of ethical medical practice, calls upon deities to witness to the taking of it: “I swear by Apollo the Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant.”