Medical Humanities by Cole Thomas R. & Ronald A. Carson & Nathan S. Carlin

Author:Cole, Thomas R. & Ronald A. Carson & Nathan S. Carlin [Cole, Thomas R.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

Summation

This chapter explored some ways of thinking about the goals of medicine. Beginning with a discussion of the two principal ways of specifying medicine’s raison d’être – the social constructionist approach and the essentialist approach – it examined how these two seemingly incompatible approaches might be kept in balance. In particular, it discussed how a mid-1990s study by the Hastings Center found common ground between these two camps by pointing toward four broad notions that can serve as guideposts along the path toward determining modern medicine’s goals and limits. Then, with a focus on enhancing human traits and end-of-life issues in America, it considered how our understanding of the goals of medicine has evolved in recent years. Overall, though, this chapter attempted to emphasize that defining the goals of medicine is a task still very much in progress.

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