Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic(theguardian.com) |
Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic(theguardian.com) |
An oath in the same spirit for knowledge workers would be meaningless, since their work never does any direct harm.
If such an oath is instead applied to indirect harm, how many levels of indirection is enough to wash your hands of all harm?
Wow. I got a taste of this attitude studying my MSc in early 2000s. We were forced to attend a couple of men-bashing lectures because the programme had apparently been criticised for being 'too technical'.
It was an Info Science masters; technical was what I was after when I signed up :|