SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.8 issue4Main aspects in the health sciences video lessons makingImportance of implant rehabilitation versus other types of prosthetic rehabilitation author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Indicators

  • Have no cited articlesCited by SciELO

Related links

  • Have no similar articlesSimilars in SciELO

Share


Revista Habanera de Ciencias Médicas

On-line version ISSN 1729-519X

Abstract

RILLO, Arturo G; GARCIA, Javier Jaimes  and  VEGA-MONDRAGON, Lizeth. Disappointment of medical technology. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2009, vol.8, n.4. ISSN 1729-519X.

The avoidance of sickness and the extension of life, however, the non compliment of these aspirations make the patient disappointed towards medical technologies. With the purpose to promote reflexion over the humanistic content over this medical technology, the article point of departure exposes the technical and scientifically domain of medicine as a base for the tension between the scientific knowledge of doctors and the existential knowledge of patients, in order to establish horizons of comprehension which unmask the forgetfulness of health as the structural element that allow him/her to locate in the disappointment of medical technology , which is in conclusion, a way to understand the world manifesting the lack of a life project humanly thought , historically allocated and morally assumed.

Keywords : Medical Technology; Medical Ethics; Medical Humanism; Medical Sciences; Health; Disease..

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )

 

Creative Commons License All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License