Good, clean copy with moderate shelf wear on book jacket. No markings except for a tasteful embossed ex libris stamp on title page. Pages are slightly yellowed with age but its many color and black-and-white illustrations are sharp and vibrant. This book deals with medical ethics under the Hippocratic physicians of ancient Greece, for whom good health was perfection in nature, the brilliant archiaters and their schools of the later Roman Empire and after, the medical clergy who introduced a new attitude to suffering, and the laboratory doctors of emergent industrial society. In the author's view, modern treatment, whether state or private, has yet to alter radically the requirements of a successful doctor-patient the difference lies only in how these requirements are met. Loc:b3