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Ciencia para la paz y en beneficio de la humanidad: El concepto del Juramento Hipocrático para Científicos - Guillermo A. Lemarchand
propone el siguiente juramento para terminar con las propuestas de juramentos, que es un contraejemplo
del resto de las propuestas listadas.
As an American scholar, I pledge allegiance:
To the United States, the country that has given me opportunities for life, livelihood, and the
pursuit of truth;
To the U. S. Constitution, embodying as it does the principles of democratic government, and
in accordance with our history, to the legal and orderly means of amending it as changing times
and circumstances may require for the maximum satisfaction and safety of the nation;
To the principle of the free worship of God by all citizens in their several ways so long as the
chosen devotional forms of some do not interfere with the same inalienable religious rights of
others;
To the belief in the ultimate primacy of reason and therefore to the principle of unrestricted
public competition among ideas on the ground that “error of opinion may be tolerated where
reason is left free to combat it”;
To the untrammeled search for knowledge and understanding in classrooms, libraries, and laboratories
everywhere in the United States;
To the conviction that scholarly fitness is best determined only by other scholars rather than by
those who merely disagree with a scholar’s uttered or published opinions; and
To the role of the scholar as a responsible citizen who is ready to serve the United States in any
capacity in which he may be useful to it, whose possible criticism of American institutions is
based upon his love for the fundamental American ways of life, and whose actions are always
based on his most sincere interpretation of what constitutes the demands of loyalty to his nation
and its posterity.
As an American scholar, I make this pledge solemnly and without reservation upon my sacred
honor.
[18] Fred W. Decker (1957) propone, en la prestigiosa revista Science, la necesidad de que los científicos
cultiven los aspectos éticos dentro de sus actividades y destaca la necesidad de que se implemente
un Juramento similar al Hipocrático en donde se defina claramente las obligaciones del científico
para con la sociedad.
[19] Juramento de Graduación de la Universidad de Zagreb. Supek y Malecki (1982: 183) mencionan
la existencia de un juramento de graduación de la Universidad de Zagreb (Croacia) en donde los
candidatos a doctor en ciencias se comprometen a “adherir siempre a la verdad científica y trabajar
para el beneficio de toda la humanidad”.
[20] Juramento Hipocrático -Propuesta de actualización en la revista Science (1966)
I will share the science and art by precept, by demonstration, and by every mode of teaching
with other physicians regardless of their national origin. I will try to help secure for the physicians
in each country the esteem of their own people, and in collaborative work see that they
get full credit.
I will strive to eliminate sources of disease everywhere in the world and not merely set up barriers
to the spread of disease to my own people.
I will work for understanding of the diverse causes of disease, including the social, economic,
and environmental. I will promote the well-being of mankind in all its aspects, not merely the
bodily, with sympathy and consideration for- a people’s culture and beliefs.
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