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The media, the public, the politicians have increasingly become interested in medicine. This time, however, the interest is not so much related to traditional public interest in medical breakthroughs or progress in healing, as with such issues as the allocation of scarce resources, withholding of treatment which on medical or technical grounds could easily be provided, paternalism of the physician and consumerism of the patient, active or passive euthanasia, genetic diagnosis, in vitro fertilization. These issues are neither discussed as purely scientific or technical matters, they are discussed instead as value-related issues, as moral, cultural, political or religious challenges. Among the dozen odd questions of everyday medical practice discussed by v. Troschke ([32], p. 4) are the following: Shall terminally ill patients be fully informed about their diagnosis? Shall life be prolonged under any circumstances using all available technology? Shall the physician get involved in human experimentation in order to promote medical progress? Shall the physician do abortions on his or her patients? None of these questions is a scientific one. But they enjoy high public visibility and prominence and have to be answered either by the medical profession or the public, i.e., the regulators, the patients, insurers, self-help groups, etc. Definitely, medicine is not one of the hard sciences, when we look at these issues.
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Sass, HM. (1993). Medicine—Beyond the Boundaries of Sciences, Technologies, and Arts. In: Delkeskamp-Hayes, C., Cutter, M.A.G. (eds) Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 44. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2960-4_17
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