首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Medical consumerism--like all sorts of consumerism, only more menacingly--is designed to be satisfying.【51】The prolongation of l
Medical consumerism--like all sorts of consumerism, only more menacingly--is designed to be satisfying.【51】The prolongation of l
admin
2013-01-12
30
问题
Medical consumerism--like all sorts of consumerism, only more menacingly--is designed to be satisfying.【51】The prolongation of life and the search for perfect health(beauty, youth, happiness) are inherently self-defeating. The law of diminishing returns necessarily applies. You can make higher percentages of people survive into their eighties and nineties. But, as any geriatric ward shows, that is not the same as to confer enduring mobility, awareness and autonomy. 【52】Extending life grows medically feasible, but it is often a life deprived of everything, and one exposed to degrading neglect as resources grow over-stretched and politics turn mean.
What an ignominious destiny for medicine if its future turned into one of bestowing meager increments of unenjoyed life! It would mirror the fate of athletics, in which disproportionate energies and resources not least medical ones, like illegal steroids--are now invested to shave records by milliseconds. And, it goes without saying; the logical extension of longevism--the "abolition" of death--would not be a solution but only an exacerbation.【53】To air these predicaments is not antimedical spleen--a churlish reprisal against medicine for its victories--but simply to face the growing reality of medical power not exactly without responsibility but with dissolving goals.
【54】Hence medicine’s finest hour becomes the dawn of its dilemmas. For centuries, medicine as impotent and hence unproblematic. From the Greeks to the Great War, its job was simple: to struggle with lethal diseases and gross disabilities, to ensure live births, and to manage pain. It performed these uncontroversial tasks by and large with meager success. Today, with mission accomplished, medicine’s triumphs are dissolving in disorientation.【55】Medicine has led to vastly inflated expectations, which the public has eagerly swallowed. Yet as these expectations grow unlimited, they become unfulfillable. The task facing medicine in the twenty-first century will be to redefine its limits even as it extends its capacities.
选项
答案
The attempt to make life longer and to search for ways of perfect health, including beauty, youth and happiness, is born to cause more problems to health.
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Hq9O777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Thefoodwasdivided______accordingtotheageandsizeofthechildren.
AlthoughmostuniversitiesintheUnitedStatesareonasemestersystemwhichoffersclassesinthefallandspring,someschoo
Agoodmodernnewspaperisanextraordinarypieceofreading.Itisremarkablefirstforwhatitcontains:therangeofnewsfro
Iwasadvisedtoarrangeforinsurance______Ineededmedicaltreatment.
A______tothisproblemisexpectedtobefoundbeforelong.
Aftercompletingtheirmedical-historyforms,patientsattheHopeClinicforWomeninGraniteCity,111.areaskedanunusualq
Aftercompletingtheirmedical-historyforms,patientsattheHopeClinicforWomeninGraniteCity,111.areaskedanunusualq
In1963anAmericanphysiotherapistGlennDomanwroteabest-sellingbookcalledHowtoTeachYourBabytoRead.Nowtranslated
Remembertoaskfora______ofqualityforthesegoods;otherwisetheywillnotoffer’anymaintenance.
Agoodmodernnewspaperisanextraordinarypieceofreading.Itisremarkablefirstforwhatitcontains:therangeofnewsfro
随机试题
Theyoungworkersset______theirworkwithgreatenthusiasm.
某热电厂从某煤矿购煤200吨,约定交货期限为2007年9月30日,付款期限为2007年10月31日。9月底,煤矿交付200吨煤,热电厂经检验发现煤的含硫量远远超过约定标准,根据政府规定不能在该厂区燃烧。基于上述情况,热电厂的哪些主张有法律依据?()
典型二阶系统的特征方程为s2+2ξωns+ωn2=0,则()。
飞机库的每个防火分区至少应有两个直通室外的安全出口,其最远工作地点到安全出口的距离不应大于()m。
以下不是国家助学贷款的发放对象的是()。
某企业2017年利润总额为300万元,当年为开发新产品发生的研发费用为50万元(未形成无形资产,计入当期损益)。假设除此之外无其他纳税调整事项,税法规定研发费用可实行加计扣除政策。该企业2017年应缴纳企业所得税()万元。
包括若干客观性评价指标,以游客满意度为导向的是()评价。
担任科(局)级正职行政职务的人民警察可授予()至一级警司。
进入新单位后,领导没有给你明确工作目标,假如是你,该怎么办?
①权力的过多干预并不能起到很好的效果,甚至还有反作用②搞体育就像搞经济,有些时候,权力的干预越少越好,权力跑得越远越好③举重、体操、乒乓球、跳水都可以,但是足球之类的集体项目不可以④而只有市场化和协会化的管理组织才会比官办足球更有活力,就像市场经济之
最新回复
(
0
)