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[The new molecular physician: engineer, soothsayer or health advisor?]
1Unité de recherche et d'enseignement en bioéthique, Centre médical universitaire, Genève. Alexandre.Mauron@medecine.unige.ch
Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift
|December 22, 1999
Abstract:
The label of molecular medicine stands for a variety of scientific, diagnostic and therapeutic developments. While these aspects of modern medicine have relatively little in common in terms of the ethical tissues they raise, they change the overall philosophy of medicine in characteristic ways. These changes are analysed in terms of three somewhat non-traditional dimensions of medical practice: the engineering's deal, the predictive dimension, and the role of the doctor as personal health advisor.