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[Medicine between technique and ethics].

F Nager
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In modern medicine technical and ethical questions develop continuously into a tension-loaded relationship. The actual controversy between technical and ethical imperative concerns primarily the fundamental dichotomy and dialectics of modern medical technology. In a second part the ethical challenge for physicians and nurses operating in our increasingly perfect hospitals is analysed. An outlook for future conditions for more harmony between medical technology and ethics is finally presented. A new medical spirit is needed to animate medical technology and to expand it to real art of healing.

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F Nager. 1992-10-27. [Medicine between technique and ethics].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1439410/

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