Medical Jurisprudence And Rules Of The Medical Profession

Philosophy and Medicine P&M135 Rudolf Ramm Medical Jurisprudence and Rules of the Medical Profession Translated, annotated and introduced by Melvin Wayne Cooper Philosophy and Medicine Volume 135 Series Editors Søren Holm, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Lisa M. Rasmussen, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, USA Founding Editors H. Tristram Engellhardt, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA † Stuart F. Spicker, Renodo Beach, USA † Editorial Board George Agich, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Bob Baker, Union College, Schenectady, NY, USA Jeffrey Bishop, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, USA Ana Borovecki, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Ruiping Fan, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong Volnei Garrafa, International Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil D. Micah Hester, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA Bjørn Hoffiman, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway Ana Iltis, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA John Lantos, Childrens’ Mercy, Kansas City, MO, USA Chris Tollefsen, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA Dr Teck Chuan Voo, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore The Philosophy and Medicine series is dedicated to publishing monographs and collections of essays that contribute importantly to scholarship in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. The series addresses the full scope of issues in bioethics and philosophy of medicine, from euthanasia to justice and solidarity in health care, and from the concept of disease to the phenomenology of illness. The Philosophy and Medicine series places the scholarship of bioethics within studies of basic problems in the epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics of medicine. The series seeks to publish the best of philosophical work from around the world and from all philosophical traditions directed to health care and the biomedical sciences. Since its appearance in 1975, the series has created an intellectual and scholarly focal point that frames the field of the philosophy of medicine and bioethics. From its inception, the series has recognized the breadth of philosophical concerns made salient by the biomedical sciences and the health care professions. With over one hundred and twenty five volumes in print, no other series offers as substantial and significant a resource for philosophical scholarship regarding issues raised by medicine and the biomedical sciences. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6414 Rudolf Ramm Medical Jurisprudence and Rules of the Medical Profession Translated, annotated and introduced by Melvin Wayne Cooper Rudolf Ramm Instructor at the University of Berlin Berlin, Germany Translated by Melvin Wayne Cooper University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX, USA ISSN 0376-7418     ISSN 2215-0080 (electronic) Philosophy and Medicine ISBN 978-3-030-25244-1    ISBN 978-3-030-25245-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25245-8 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and r