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Mistaken medial goals and the misuse of medical knowledge.(The Goals of Medicine: Setting New Priorities)
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The goals of medicine are rich and diverse. The capacity of medicine to articulate pain, suffering, and impairment in secular terms, and to make sense of them in part by scientific means and metaphors moves medicine beyond narrowly medical goals. The uses of medical knowledge and skills are many. Most of them are good, but some can be evil. Medicine can be employed to save lives and to torture prisoners, to relieve pain and to assist in capital punishment, to terminate pregnancies and to relieve infertility, and so on. Which uses are compatible with the primary goals of medicine ...
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