The title of this talk may be rather confusing. The term medical humanism appears to refer to some sort of wisdom or a particular vision of humanity and of its meaning that a doctor acquires through his daily encounters with patients. That is not in fact what I have to say. Instead, I would like to show how medical progress is slowly but surely changing the objectives of a wide range of medical activities and how as a result the medical world is asking not only itself but also the prevailing culture that underpins medicine some very new questions to which it has no answers.
Keywords
- Ethical Approach
- Moral Courage
- Symbolic Dimension
- Consumer Society
- Human Desire
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