Saturday, February 18, 2012
Medical Techniques
I just have a lot of questions to ask about medical techniques. Everyone is so quick to criticize every form of research. No one wants to accept that sometimes people need to suffer to advance our research. I am one of those people, but I have been thinking a lot about this ever since our discussion on Thursday. Someone needs to find a humane form of testing that no one is going to complain about. The best we have done so far is getting volunteers to get tested on. Do you think that some day we will be so advanced that we can find new forms of testing that don't require using it on humans? Maybe there will be a breakthrough, and no one will ever have to suffer for medical testing again. Until then, should we keep doing what we're doing, or should we put out medical advancements on hold?
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Justin,
ReplyDeleteMary Roach touches upon some of these issues in relation to the topics of anatomy and dissection in the reading for this upcoming week. She questions whether actual human cadavers are needed for medical students to learn, or if there are other less potentially problematic alternatives. Her chapter may be useful in thinking through some of the questions you raise here.