Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference organized by the Pontifical Council DOLENTIUM HOMINUM for Pastoral Assistance No. 31 (Year XI - No.1) 1996 JOURNAL OF THE to Health Care Workers PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PASTORAL ASSISTANCE TO HEALTH CARE WORKERS Editorial Board: FIORENZO Cardinal ANGELINI, Editor Rev. JOSÉ L. REDRADO O.H., Managing Editor Rev. FELICE RUFFINI M.I., Associate Editor Rev. GIOVANNI D’ERCOLE F.D.P. Vade et Tu Sr. CATHERINE DWYER M.M.M. Dr. GIOVANNI FALLANI Msgr. JESUS IRIGOYEN Rev. VITO MAGNO R.C.I. Fac Similiter: Ing. FRANCO PLACIDI Prof. GOTTFRIED ROTH From Hippocrates Msgr. ITALO TADDEI To the Good Editorial Staff: Rev. DAVID MURRAY M.ID. Samaritan MARIA ÁNGELES CABANA M.ID. Sr. M. GABRIELLE MULTIER Rev. JEAN-MARIE M. MPENDAWATU Editorial and Business Offices: Vatican City Telephone: 6988-3138, November 23-24-25, 6988-4720, 6988-4799, Telefax: 6988-3139 1995 Telex: 2031 SANITPC VA In copertina: glass-window P. 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The price of this special issue is Lire 80,000 ($ 80) Printed by Editrice VELAR S.p.A., Gorle (BG) Paul VI Hall Vatican City Spedizione in abbonamento postale 50% Roma Contents 6 A Man Went Down to Jericho 42 Hippocrates in the Documents of the Greeting Addressed to the Holy Father Church and in Works of Theology by Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini Gottfried Roth 7 Address by the 45 The Care of the Sick Holy Father in the History of the Church John Paul II Jesús Alvarez Gómez 9 The Hippocratic Oath and the 48 The Charter for Health Care Workers: Parable of the Good Samaritan A Synthesis of Hippocratic Ethics and Christian Morality 10 The Meaning Bonifacio Honings of a Historical Trajectory 53 Healing Wounds: The Rachel Groups Fiorenzo Angelini John O’Connor 12 Where There Is Love for the Art 56 The Sacredness of Life of Medicine There Is Love for Man in Pagan Philosophy Vincenzo Cappelletti Jean-Marie Meyer 15 “A Man Went Down from 59 The Religiosity of Medicine Jerusalem to Jerico” (Lk 10:30) Luigi Maria Verzé Paul Poupard 65 Primum Philosophari? Sergio Cotta VADE ET TU FAC SIMILITER: FROM HIPPOCRATES TO THE GOOD SAMARITAN 69 AIDS as a Disease of the Body and the Spirit The Hippocratic Oath Robert C. Gallo 22 in the Development of Medicine Diego Gracia Guillén 72 The Integral Training of the Physician The Ethical Dimension of Hippocratic for Care of the Sick 29 Medicine and Its Specific Gottieb Monekosso Relationship to Christian Morality Bruno Zanobio 76 Medicine and Christianity Contemporary Ethical Codes Francisco Eduardo Trusso 33 of Professional Conduct Gonzalo Herranz Rodríguez 78 Judaism Elio Toaff 37 Care for the Sick and the Fathers of the Church 82 Medical Ethics and Islam Carlo Cremona Ahmed Zribi 86 Language 133 The Civilization of Sadness and the Dissemination and the Culture of Joy of Medicine Stanislaw Grygiel Alessandro Beretta Anguissola 137 The Responsibility of the Medical 88 The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Doctor and the Life of the Patient Medical Textbooks and Manuals of the Wanda Poltawska Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Massimo Baldini 141 The Embryo: A Sign of Contradiction 93 The Doctor: A Man for All Elio Sgreccia Domenico Di Virgilio 143 Jérôme Léjeune: 98 The Biblical Icons of Life A Scientific and Christian Profile Ignace De La Potterie Marie-Odile Rethoré 104 The Hospital: 146 The Cultural Anthropology The Temple of Suffering Humanity of the Right to Life Pascual Piles Adriano Bausola 107 Secular Thought on the Mission 150 The Origin of the Concept of the Person: of the Medical Doctor Four Variations on the Suggested Theme Anton Neuwirth Tadeusz Styczen 155 110 The Family as the Subject The Horizons of Fetal Medicine of Health and Illness and Its Ethical Consequences Salvino Leone Emmanuel Sapin 159 115 The Technological Challenge Respect for Life and Biomedical Research of Modern Medicine Bruno Silvestrini Johannes Bonelli 163 The Human Brain: From Hippocrates 119 Respect for to the Present Development the Patient's Privacy of the Neurosciences Erwin Odenbach Carla Giuliana Bolis 124 The Hippocratic Example 168 The Overcoming of Emphasis of the Neutrality and Universality on Pain in the Christian of Medicine Conception of Suffering Karl-Otto Habermehl Cettina Militello 127 Suffering and the 173 Palliative Medicine Meaning of Life and Christian Eschatology Jesús Conde Corrado Manni 178 Women in the History 215 A Free Gift of Care for the Sick and an Act of Solidarity An Verlinde Fernando Antezana, 182 The Primacy of Life Under All Conditions, ROUND TABLE: With Special Reference to Africa THE GOOD SAMARITANS Bernardin Gantin 218 Marcello Candia 186 Health Care and Quality of Life: Ennio Apeciti Taiwan's Experience Yaw-Tang Shih 226 Albert Schweitzer Richard Brullmann 190 The Primacy of Life George Alleyne 230 Florence Nightingale Susanna Agnelli 194 The Pedagogy of Pain 235 Henry Dunant Francis Arinze Cornelio Sommaruga 237 Raoul Follereau: 198 The Good Samaritan (Lk 10:29-37) Apostle of the Lepers Biblical Hermeneutics of the Parable André Recipon Albert Vanhoye 240 Abbot Hildebrand Gregory 203 The Good Samaritan as an Simone Tonini Anthropological Category Ignacio Carrasco De Paula 244 Dr. Janusz Korczak Janusz Bolonek 206 The Model of the Good Samaritan in the History of Hospital Care 248 Pastoral Medicine in Bosnia and Angelo Brusco Herzegovina During the State of War, with Special Reference to Sarajevo 211 The Virtues of the Good Samaritan: Vinko Puljic Health Care Ethics in the Perspective of a Renewed Moral Theology 252 War Medicine J. Augustine Di Noia Bozo Ljubic The illustrations have been taken from the book Giorni del Medioevo. The miniatures of the “Très Riches Heures” of the Duke of Berry Italian Edition, Rizzoli, Milan, 1989. 6 DOLENTIUM HOMINUM GREETING ADDRESSED TO THE HOLY FATHER BY HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL FIORENZO ANGELINI A Man Went Down To Jericho Holy Father, once again you have wanted to expression of evangelical and rational values. take part in the conclusion to the annual inter- Indeed, if it is true, as Evangelium Vitae af- national conference organized by the Pontifi- firms, that “in life there is certainly a sacred cal Council for Health Care Workers. This is and religious value, in no way does this value the tenth such international conference. concern only believers: if it is a value which Your contributions, Holy Father, to the sub- every human being can understand, in the light jects of great relevance discussed by these of reason as well, and which therefore neces- conferences constitute vital points of reference sarily concerns everybody” (no. 101). for doctrine and practice in the vast, intricate For you, Holy Father, the road which goes and ever more complicated field of the rela- down from Jerusalem to Jericho is the road tionship between science and its practical ap- which traverses our whole planet: a road plication, and between biomedicine in its which you have gone down and continue to widest forms of expression and moral law. walk along tirelessly in order to meet the innu- We thank you greatly for your fatherly par- merable victims of the violence of our times ticipation, a participation which is another ex- and our days. ample of the extraordinary and providential at- Just as the illuminated medieval scribe tran- tention paid by you to the very serious ques- scribed the Hippocratic oath in the form of a tions and problems which now concern the cross, so you have made the advancement and world of health policy and care. the defense of life the meeting point for the On the tenth anniversary of this Council, Gospels, for knowledge, and for belief. whose establishment you sought in order to Thank you, Holy Father, for this secure and demonstrate that the solicitude of the Church strong guidance which gives us the hopeful in- for the suffering and the sick, and for health telligence and the exemplary courage to fight a care workers at all levels of responsibility, is difficult—because decisive—battle. an integral part of her mission, this tenth inter- We have already begun our preparations for national conference has addressed itself to the the next international conference, which will subject: “Vade et Tu Fac Similiter: From Hip- be held in 1996. The general subject of the pocrates to the Good Samaritan.” conference will be: Allow me, Holy Father, to observe that your “In the Image and Likeness of God: Magisterium and ministry are the living, Always? The Disturbances of the Human courageous, and most authoritative realization Mind.” of this task. As you yourself stressed at the general assembly of the United Nations last The subject is of extraordinary relevance and October: “There is nothing which is genuinely directly concerns about a billion people in the human which does not find an echo in the world. We want, Holy Father, to go on being Christian heart.” very willing to help at all times, to be authentic Your forceful defense of fundamental hu- Samaritans for everybody, but especially for man rights—and above all else the right to life, all those—without distinction—who suffer in its sacredness, inviolability, and dignity—and the body, in the spirit, and in the mind. the constant preaching of the gospel of suffer- Thank you, Holy Father, for your long- ing have presented the world with the highest awaited and enlightening words. VADE ET TU FAC SIMILITER: FROM HIPPOCRATES TO THE GOOD SAMARITAN 7 ADDRESS BY THE HOLY FATHER Be the Good Samaritans of Modern Times 1. I am happy to be addressing all of you, 2. This year you have chosen to conduct very dear Brothers and Sisters, during this In- your reflection in the light of the Gospel ex- ternational Conference, which has now be- hortation: “Vade et Fac Tu Similiter: From come a traditional appointment each year Hippocrates to the Good Samaritan.” In this bringing together so many generous people twofold allusion the whole history of medicine marked by enthusiasm and fidelity who are in- may be well summarized.