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
Outside the medical profession, there are various efforts to cut medicine down to size: not only widespread malpractice litigati
Outside the medical profession, there are various efforts to cut medicine down to size: not only widespread malpractice litigati
admin
2012-12-01
45
问题
Outside the medical profession, there are various efforts to cut medicine down to size: not only widespread malpractice litigation and massive governmental regulation, but also attempts by consumer groups and others to redefine medicine as a trade rather than as a profession, and the physician as merely a technician for hire under contract. Why should physicians (or indeed all sensible people) resist such efforts to give the practice of medicine a new meaning? We can gain some illumination from etymology. "Trade," from Germanic and Anglo-Saxon roots meaning "a course or pathway," has come to mean derivatively a habitual occupation and has been related to certain skills and crafts. On the other hand, while "profession" today also entails a habit of work, the word "profession" itself traces to an act of self-conscious and public—even confessional—speech. "To profess preserves the meaning of its Latin source, to declare publicly; to announce, affirm, avow." A profession is an activity or occupation to which its practitioner publicly professes, that is, confesses, devotion. But public announcement seems insufficient; publicly declaring devotion to plumbing or auto repair would not turn these trades into professions.
Some believe that learning and knowledge are the diagnostic signs of a profession. For reasons probably linked to the medieval university, the term "profession" has been applied to the so-called learned professions—medicine, law, and theology—the practices of which are founded upon inquiry and knowledge rather than mere "know how." Yet it is not only the pursuit and acquisition of knowledge that makes one a professional. The knowledge involved makes the profession one of the learned variety, but its professional quality is rooted in something else.
Some mistakenly seek to locate that something else in the prestige and honor accorded professionals by society, evidenced in their special titles and the special deference and privileges they receive. But externalities do not constitute medicine a profession. Physicians are not professionals because they are honored; rather, they are honored because of their profession. Their titles and the respect they are shown superficially signify and acknowledge something deeper, that physicians are persons of the professional sort, knowingly and freely devoting themselves to a way of life worthy of such devotion. Just as lawyers devote themselves to rectifying injustices, looking up to what is lawful and right; just as teachers devote themselves to the education of the young, looking up to truth and wisdom; so physicians heal the sick, looking up to health and wholesomeness. Being a professional is thus rooted in our moral nature and in that which warrants and impels making a public confession to a way of life.
Professing oneself a professional is an ethical act because it is not a silent and private act, but an articulated and public one; because it promised continuing devotion to a way of life, not merely announces a present preference or a way to a livelihood; because it is an activity in service to some high good that insists on devotion; because it is difficult and demanding. A profession engages one’s character and heart, not merely one’s mind and hands.
In the passage, the author mentions or suggests all of the following EXCEPT______.
选项
A、how society generally treats physicians
B、that the practice of medicine is analogous to teaching
C、that being a professional is in part a public act
D、the specific knowledge on which trades are based
答案
D
解析
排除题。根据文本,只有D项没有被提及。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ihaO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
AboutWetlandsintheU.S.A.Peopleenjoyafamoussoup(SHE-CRABSOUP)inNorthCarolinabecausethedaysoftheregionalsoup
WhatisHawaii’smostimportantindustry?
Thestudyoftheproductionofspeechsoundsisofgreatinteresttothoseworkingin______.
Theconcernthroughouttheworldin1968forthosethreewhalesthatwerelockedintheArcticicewasdramaticproofthatwhale
Forme,scientificknowledgeisdividedintomathematicalsciences,naturalsciencesdealingwiththenaturalworld(physicalan
ThebestknownAustraliananimalis______.
Withregardtoitssize,Australiais______countryintheworld.
______isthestudyofthephysicalpropertiesofthesoundsproducedinspeech.
Duringthetraditionalweddingceremony,thebridalcouplepromiseseachotherlifelongdevotion.Yet,aboutoneoutoffour【M1】
WhichofthefollowingisNOTthetopcountryreceivingforeigninvestmentis1991?
随机试题
________指没有法定或约定的义务,为避免他人利益受损失而进行管理或服务的行为。不当得利指没有法律或合同上的根据取得利益。造成他人受损害。受损失的一方有权请求不当得利人返还所得利益。
在等容舒张期,心脏瓣膜的状态是()
与类风湿因子特异性结合的是
某技术改造项目拟引进国外设备,据调研同类项目通常投资额为3000万元人民币,年生产费用通常水平应为1200万元人民币,基准收益率为10%,技术水平、质量水平可按一般水平为通常水平,现有3个方案可供选择。A方案:引进设备(I)总费用为4000万元人民币,年
平开窗扇高度大于900mm时,窗扇锁闭点不应少于()个。
下面关于金融工具和金融市场叙述错误的是()。
战国时期,甘德和石申的《甘石星经》是世界上最早的天文学著作。()
某高中鼓励体育教师运用多种组织形式进行体育课教学,老师们积极创新,以下是三位老师的课堂组织形式。A教师按照自然教学班为单位进行教学。B教师和其他老师合作,将两个平行班放在一起授课,男生一个班,女生一个班分别授课。C教师让同学自
培养和提高教师素养的主要途径。(华南师范大学2015年研、扬州大学、四川师范大学2016年研)
OldageintheUnitedStatespresentsmanyproblemsandopportunities.Asaresultof【B1】______medicalservices,peoplelivelon
最新回复
(
0
)