Seventeen Rules of Enjuin

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The Seventeen Rules of Enjuin ( Japanese 延寿 院 医 則 十七 ヶ 条 ) contain a medical ethical code of conduct that was drawn up in the 16th century for students of the Japanese Ri-shu medical school . The number of rules is the same as in the 17 article constitution of Shōtoku Taishi .

The rules are similar to the Buddhist medical ethical code of the Vejjavatapada derived from the Pali Canon and have parallels to the oaths of Assaf and Hippocrates in that they formulate the rights of teachers, oblige the doctor to secrecy and forbid euthanasia and abortion . They also stress that doctors love their patients and should work together as a brotherhood.

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The seventeen rules are:

  1. Everyone should follow the path given by heaven ( Buddha , the gods).
  2. You should always be kind to people. You should always devote yourself to human love.
  3. The teaching of medicine should be reserved for certain people.
  4. You should not pass on what you are taught to others so that treatment is not given without permission.
  5. You shouldn't get in touch with doctors who don't come from this school.
  6. All successors and descendants of the students in this school should follow the teacher's path.
  7. Should a student cease to be a doctor or die without a successor, all medical textbooks from the school should be returned to them by Enjuin.
  8. You shall not kill living creatures, nor find joy in hunting or fishing.
  9. It is forbidden to teach about poisons in our school, nor should you receive teaching about poisons from other doctors. In addition, you should not give people an abortion drug.
  10. You should also save people you do not like or hate, you should act virtuously, but in such a way that other people do not know it. Doing good in secret is a hallmark of virtue.
  11. You shouldn't show greed or strive to become famous. Do not blame or scold a patient even if they do not give you money or goods out of gratitude.
  12. You should be happy when, after your unsuccessful effort, a patient receives medicine from another doctor and is cured.
  13. You should never speak ill of other doctors.
  14. When you walk into a woman's room, you shouldn't tell anyone what you've learned, even more, you shouldn't allow lewd or immoral feelings when examining a woman.
  15. Appropriate or not, you should not tell others what you have learned in class or about medicine use.
  16. You shouldn't make unreasonable efforts. If you appreciate such a lifestyle, your greed will increase and you will lose the ability to be kind to others.
  17. If you do not follow the rules and regulations of this school, you will no longer be its student. In more severe cases, the penalty will also be more severe.

See also

Web links

Portal: Medicine  - Overview of Wikipedia content on medicine

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Victoria Berdon, Jennifer Flavin: Codes of Medical and Human Experimentation Ethics. In: The least of my brothers. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; Retrieved April 17, 2016 .
  2. ^ WT Reich (ed.): The 17 rules of Enjuin. In: Encyclopedia of Bioethics . New York 2004. Online , accessed April 17, 2016.