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 unsatisfying. The prolongation o
Medical consumerism -- like all sorts of consumerism, only more menacingly -- is designed to be unsatisfying. The prolongation o
admin
2010-03-25
46
问题
Medical consumerism -- like all sorts of consumerism, only more menacingly -- is designed to be unsatisfying. 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. 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 meagre 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. To air these predicaments is not anti-medical spleen, but simply to face the growing reality of medical power not exactly without responsibility but with dissolving goals.
Hence medicine’s finest hour becomes the dawn of its dilemmas. For centuries, medicine was 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 meagre success. Today, with mission accomplished, medicine’s triumphs are dissolving in disorientation. 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.
In the author’s opinion, the prolongation of life is equal to
选项
A、mobility.
B、deprivation.
C、autonomy.
D、awareness.
答案
B
解析
作者认为延长人的生命等同于……有关此信息在第一段内能够找到:But,as any geriatric ward shows,that(这里指的是延长生命)is not the same as to confer enduring mobility,awareness and autonomy.Extending life grows medically feasible,but it is often a life deprived of everything...作者认为仅仅从医学角度延长人的寿命,并不等同于延长A(mobility自由活动能力)、C(autonomy自治能力)、D (awareness知晓能力),往往导致一种被剥夺了一切的生活,这样实际上是没有意义的。因此答案是B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/bnqO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
A、Theweatheriswarmonthecoast.B、Theweatheraffectstheoperationgreatly.C、It’sextremeweatherconditionsthatmakeexp
Iamoneofthemanycitypeoplewhoarealwayssayingthatgiventhechoicewewouldprefertoliveinthecountryawayfromth
A、Improvedmentalfunctioning.B、Increasedsusceptibilitytodisease.C、Speedingupofbloodcirculation.D、Reductionofstress-
A、Theemployeeswilllearnandpracticeatadesignatedplace.B、Theemployeesaretakingatraintoastaffmeetingintheclub
Ahomeneedstobelikeahome,asitisahomeofhumanbodyandsoul.FurnituredesignerRickGilbert’sflatisaformercurta
Extract1Simplyput,anewspapereditorialisanarticlethatexpressesanopinion.Whilethissinglesentencemaynotseem
我们正处在一个快速发展变化的世界里。世界多极化、经济全球化、社会信息化深入推进,各种挑战层出不穷,各国利益紧密相连。零和博弈、冲突对抗早已不合时宜,同舟共济、合作共赢成为时代要求。中国人历来讲究“信”。2000多年前,孔子就说:“人而无信,不知其可
Whoraisedthenotionof"objectivecorrelative"?
Whenaspeakerexpresseshisintentionofspeaking,suchasaskingsomeonetoopenthewindow,heisperforming______.
随机试题
为了保障农村留守儿童的受教育权利,国家推出了一系列教育关爱措施,具体包括()。
设有三对角矩阵(aij)n×n,将其三条对角线上的元素逐行存于数组B(1:3n一2)中,使得B[k]=aij,求:用k表i、j的下标变换公式。
下列对《我与地坛》中地坛的描述,具有“我”的人生象征意味的是()
易发生呕吐的仔猪疾病是
假设MC、LTC、AC、AFC、AVC曲线分别代表边际成本曲线、长期成本曲线、平均成本曲线、平均固定成本曲线和平均可变成本曲线,则在下列几种曲线中,具有U型特征的曲线有()。
可移动文物的分级方法是()。
理性认识的基本形式是()。
患者,女,因发热38.7℃,全身有小出血点,头晕乏力,经医院查血红蛋白85g/L,红细胞3.0×1012/L,白细胞3.0×109/L,血小板70×109/L,确诊为再生障碍性贫血。本病发生机制是()。
小明的毕业论文分别请两位老师进行了审阅。每位老师分别通过Word的修订功能对该论文进行了修改。现在,小明需要将两份经过修订的文档合并为一份,最优的操作方法是()。
()集合包装()物流管理()素质教育()网上交易平台
最新回复
(
0
)