New Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences

Name: New Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences
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Some Moral Implications of Its Acquisition, Possession, and Use

Автор: W.B. Bondeson, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., S.F. Spicker, J.M. White

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Springer

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The spectacular development of medical knowledge over the last two centuries has brought intrusive a...

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Автор

W.B. Bondeson, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., S.F. Spicker, J.M. White

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2011

страници

225

EAN

9789400977259

ISBN

9400977255

Enbook ID

02183970

Издател

Springer

Теглоt

385

Размери

155 x 235 x 14

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The spectacular development of medical knowledge over the last two centuries has brought intrusive advances in the capabilities of medical technology. These advances have been remarkable over the last century, but especially over the last few decades, culminating in such high technology interventions as heart transplants and renal dialysis. These increases in medical powers have attracted societal interest in acquiring more such knowledge. They have also spawned concerns regarding the use of human subjects in research and regarding the byproducts of basic research as in the recent recombinant DNA debate. As a consequence of the development of new biomedical knowledge, physicians and biomedical scientists have been placed in positions of new power and responsibility. The emergence of this group of powerful and knowledgeable experts has occasioned debates regarding the accountability of physicians and biomedical scientists. But beyond that, the very investment of resources in the acquisition of new knowledge has been questioned. Societies must decide whether finite resources would not be better invested at this juncture, or in general, in the alleviation of the problems of hunger or in raising general health standards through interventions which are less dependent on the intensive use of high technology. To put issues in this fashion touches on philosophical notions concerning the claims of distributive justice and the ownership of biomedical knowledge.

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