In its relationship with society, contemporary medicine is beset by a deep tension. It is an old tension and familiar to all those who work in and study medicine. It has long been observed, for example, that the instrumental stance of scientific medicine can entail a loss of consideration for the person of the patient.¹ The ideal-type of the biomedical physician is a kind of applied scientist, guided by objective diagnostic criteria and deploying an armament of specific technical interventions against nature’s “real” diseases. Taking this role involves a depersonalization, a setting aside of the emotional and moral aspects of...
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