All Posts Tagged With: "medical ethics"
Medicalizing Quackery
The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines “medicalize” as “to view or treat as a medical concern, problem, or disorder” and offers this phrase as illustration: “those who seek to dispose of social problems by medicalizing them.” Accordingly, we speak of the medicalization of homosexuality and hostility, but do not speak of the medicalization of malaria or [...]
1Oct2007 | Thomas Szasz | 0 comments | ContinuedPrimum Nocere
Although the phrase “First, Do No Harm” is not in the Hippocratic Oath, in the opinion of many scholars Hippocrates did originate it. In his book, Epidemics, he wrote: “As to diseases, make a habit of two things—to help, or at least to do no harm.” This principle, usually expressed in its Latin translation, Primum [...]
1Dec2004 | Thomas Szasz | 0 comments | ContinuedA Model for Medical Tyranny
In the wake of September 11, every state has been asked to enact a law providing for unprecedented, comprehensive health surveillance and medical martial law. The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, proposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), would provide a state’s governor with sole discretion to declare a public-health emergency. [...]
1Aug2002 | Twila Brase | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Nazi War on Cancer
This is a deeply disturbing book for it describes in a good light what the author calls the “lesser-known ‘flipside’ of fascism–the side that gave us struggles against smoking, campaigns for cleaner food and water, for exercise and preventive medicine.” The Nazi “accomplishments” include the establishment of medical registries (that is, databases) and medical surveillance, [...]
1Oct2000 | Miguel A. Faria Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedNational Health Care: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945
Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., a physician and anthropologist, directs the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., which recently brought from Berlin the exhibition, “The Value of the Human Being: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945,” curated by Christian Pross and Götz Aly. Today we are concerned about issues such as doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, [...]
1Nov1993 | Marc S. Micozzi M.D. | 43 comments | Continued-
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