Ethical and Existential Developments in Contemporaneous American Medicine: Their Implications for Culture and Society

摘要: Contemporaneous Western medicine is often depicted as a vast body of scientific knowledge, technical skills, medicaments and machinery wielded by physician-led teams hospital-based professionals paraprofessionals, garbed in uniforms starched white, surgical green auxiliary pink or blue. Underlying this image the conception that shaped primarily technological advances, its major impetus derives from highly organized collective effort vigorously to preserve life, attaining progressive mastery over illness preventable death.