Stephenson, Terence;
(2024)
History of the regulation of the medical profession in Britain.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
10.1136/archdischild-2023-326794.
(In press).
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Abstract
Before legal regulation, there was ‘self-regulation’ as typified by the Hippocratic oath (460–370 BC): ‘I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free’. The oath also states: ‘I will impart precept, oral instruction, and all other instruction to my own sons, the sons of my teacher, and to indentured pupils who have taken the Healer’s oath, but to nobody else’—creating the medical ‘closed shop’, restricted to a selected group.1 It was to be over 2000 years before a law introduced modern medical regulation to Britain.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | History of the regulation of the medical profession in Britain |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1136/archdischild-2023-326794 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2023-326794 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Population, Policy and Practice Dept |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10186613 |
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