New medical technology: to what does it lead?
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Published on: February 19, 2017
1Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway.
Abstract:
In this paper I first discuss the concept of medical technology. (I thank Knut Arnesen, Arvid Fennefoss, and Aslaug Høye for many informative and educational conversations about problems pertaining to technology). Then, I review some different meanings of the term, and then discuss the relationship between ethics and the scientific method. Finally, the understanding that emerges from this account is applied to a special problem: the relationship between technology and deafness.
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