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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..