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Health Care and the Technological Project.
- Source :
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Perspectives on Political Science . Jan-Mar2011, Vol. 40 Issue 1, p1-8. 8p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- For all of its political drama, the health care debate appears consumed with bureaucratic minutiae quite distant from political philosophy. Yet in important respects that debate is intimately connected with the founding premises of the modern technological project of the mastery of nature for the relief of man's estate as envisioned by Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon. This essay uses a recent discussion of the health care debate by bioethicist Daniel Callahan to raise some fundamental questions about the role of technology in our medical culture. It argues that modern health care is the Cartesian project come of age, and it uses Descartes' Discourse on Method to reflect on the possibility of a sensible politics of technology in our time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *HEALTH care reform
*PHILOSOPHY of technology
*TECHNOLOGY & civilization
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10457097
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Perspectives on Political Science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 57378260
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10457097.2011.536715