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Medicine Is More Than Applied Technology for Human Beings

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Medicine owes many of its undeniable achievements to technological developments; without the elaboration of technologies, medicine would have been unable to devise or apply many methods of treatment which are, indisputably, a blessing for mankind. And yet, curative science has sometimes been dazzled by the alliance between medicine and technology. Medicine has been taken in by technology to such an extent that it has lost sight of what characterizes it as curative science and what constitutes its actual essence. Technology is not just a method to be chosen, but also a programme. Ethical reflections on the relationship between medicine and technology are presented in this chapter.

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Further Reading

  1. M. L. Eaton, D. Kennedy: Innovation in Medical Technology: Ethical Issues and Challenges (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore 2007)

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  2. R. Chadwick (Ed.): The Concise Encyclopedia of the Ethics of New Technologies (Academic, New York 2000)

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  1. Giovanni Maio
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  1. Titisee, Germany

    Rüdiger Kramme

  2. Medical Engineering and Neuroprosthetics, Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering, St. Ingbert, Germany

    Klaus-Peter Hoffmann

  3. Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

    Robert S. Pozos

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Maio, G. (2011). Medicine Is More Than Applied Technology for Human Beings. In: Kramme, R., Hoffmann, KP., Pozos, R.S. (eds) Springer Handbook of Medical Technology. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74658-4_2

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