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The Ethical Impact of Advanced Biomedical Technology
Author(s) -
Gjengedal Eva
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.678
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1471-6712
pISSN - 0283-9318
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-6712.1992.tb00272.x
Subject(s) - health technology , engineering ethics , biomedical technology , ethics of technology , health care , psychology , environmental ethics , business , sociology , medicine , political science , law , engineering , nursing ethics , philosophy , agricultural engineering , meta ethics
. The development of medical technology has ethical impacts on both patients, health‐care providers and society. Even if the original purpose of technology was meant to be a means to the benefit of the patients, this purpose is no longer unquestionable. In some situations the very opposite seems to be the case, technology may even cause suffering. It may look as if technology tends to become an end in itself, while patients tend to become a means to technological development. If this tendency is real, it implies that a technological imperative is taking the place of moral imperatives.