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The medical profession has traditionally been defined by the goal of prevention, amelioration or cure of disease. But definitions can be stretched, and give rise to new questions. For instance, what is disease? What is health? What (if anything) is good enough?
We are seeing a renaissance of the explicit goal of enhancing humans seen in the interwar period. Eradicating death has even become an explicit objective for large biotechnology companies like Google-owned Calico (4). This represents the far reaches of this development, but it is our assertion that both medicine and health policies have long been characterised by boundlessness. Our question is: Should human enhancement, combating ageing and eternal life be medical goals?
We argue that phenomena such as rising expectations for health care, fragmented treatment, a lack of understanding for so-called medically unexplained symptoms (e.g. chronic fatigue), overdiagnosis and rising costs are consequences of a framework that wrongly defines health, disease and the goals of medicine based on the assumption that the human being is nothing but an algorithm or a machine. With the increase in medicalization that pursues outdated goals, based on equally outdated oversimplifications, the problems we are seeing will only increase.
We therefore have to clarify the goals of medicine. Only in this way can we achieve a sound, defensible future for medical science. As a first step, we would argue that human beings cannot be understood as algorithms or machines in the general meaning of these words, but as living, conscious, goal-directed, meaning-seeking and deeply social agents with a biology that is defined by this at every level (6). This opens up for other goals than eternal life.
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Is it the doctor's job to prolong life and at what cost? Is eternal life a medical issue or a spiritual issue? Is eternal life just the indefinite extension, year after year, of our time on earth? Meet the doctors of the future in a reflection on eternal life in a medical perspective - with Ylva Söderfeldt and Luis de Miranda
The novel Never Let Me Go by Nobel Prize laureate Kazuo Ishiguro takes place in a future where humans achieve eternal life through human clones used as organ stores. The novel takes place in a boarding school for cloned children and follows them during their upbringing, adolescence when they realize their fate, and in adulthood where they get their organs harvested.
The Health and Humanities division, St John's Medical College, together with the student-led environment body Ecologics, initiated the plan to have a garden space dedicated to the remembrance of those who have donated their bodies to medical education.
The four principled ethics have served as the codes for healthcare professionals to prevent disease and facilitate medical care. Although the principled ethics have detailed regulations, in real clinical or medical practice, doctors or medical professionals often face ethical dilemmas regarding how to incorporate the four ethical or moral principles to derive a comprehensive plan for treatment [8]. When making clinical judgments, medical professionals should focus not only on patients but also on potential patients who may be in danger or be infected. Hence, these four moral principles create difficulties in arriving at a coherent moral judgment/resolution for medical care professionals. Therefore, to make wise clinical decisions, medical care professionals must simplify their moral judgment processes to reach a coherent justification for the sake of medical practice and public health.
Medical ethics deals with conflicts, dilemmas, and choices regarding obligations, morality, and public interest. Deontological ethics and utilitarian ethics are both ethical theories and dominate decision making in medical care and health care [4]. Deontological ethics are inclined to be patient-centered; hence, consequences are not used to justify means. However, utilitarian ethics, which are inclined to be more society-centered, value care for the greatest welfare for the greatest number of human beings; hence, outcomes determine means [1]. In clinical practice, doctors and other medical care professionals may rely on these two strands of ethical theory to make medical or clinical decisions. In recent years, scholars have observed the conflict between deontological ethics and utilitarian ethics, and it has caused some frustration and discontent. Moreover, a medical decision based on deontological or utilitarian ethics may cause conflicts in medical ethics and conflicts between doctors and patients. Although deontological ethics and utilitarian ethics differ, both have their strengths and weaknesses in medical practice. It is not easy for doctors and other medical care professionals to find a balance between these two ethical approaches.
The conflict between deontological ethics and utilitarian ethics is more obvious when an epidemic or pandemic breaks out that endangers public health. Theoretically, when a conflict of two or more ethical theories occurs in a medical issue, healthcare professionals and stakeholders should reflect on the issue in order to reach an appropriate decision. However, in practice, one ethical theory may override the other, causing a controversy in medical practice. Healthcare professionals must therefore critically reflect on these ethical issues to develop decision-making abilities that best help patients, patient families, physicians, and other healthcare professionals [4].
Utilitarian ethics originated with the idea of making good use of time and resources in medical care, without taking public benefit into consideration. However, utilitarian ethics evolved to mean a decision based on the maximum benefit for the greatest number of human beings [1]. However, when utilitarian ethics uses the maximum benefit for the most people as its primary consideration, some individuals or groups may be harmed.
Deontological ethics emphasizes the value of being a human being, underlining the principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice [21]. Therefore, deontological ethics can help medical care professionals further understand the four principles, regarding respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, and justice as the principles of humanity values and beneficence as a principle of maximizing human happiness and relieving suffering [21].
However, in the spread of pandemic disease, what if the development of medical ethics and epidemiology cannot prevent viruses from evolving and mutating? Eventually, virus evolution may surpass the speed of human research and the creation of vaccines. When that day comes, the deontological principle may no longer provide a solution, and people will start to discuss the controversial theory of utilitarian ethical theory.
Facing an unknown virus, which appears in the middle of an African jungle during battle, a government would normally give medical care professionals time to make vaccines and stop the virus from spreading. However, a utilitarian may decide to achieve the fastest and biggest benefits: to use the bomb to wipe out the epidemic. McClintock and Ford definitely know that the only way to bring the greatest benefit to human beings is to find the host.
However, what if governments deliberately hide or downplay the outbreak of COVID-19 or deliberately hide the spread of COVID-19 for some political or economic purposes? As shown by the government in Outbreak, which deliberately keeps the virus a secret to cover their biowarfare conspiracy, governments weighing economic development against the life of human beings would delay action plans to stop the spread of virus; hence, greater numbers of the population would be infected or sacrificed by the pandemic than would have otherwise been necessary. Moreover, the delay would also put medical professionals at higher risk of being infected.
Achieving eternal youth so far remains beyond the capabilities of scientific technology. However, with the help of modern aesthetic advancements, most being simple office procedures with little to no downtime, we can now slow the physical signs of yearly wear and tear on our faces. We can AGE GRACEFULLY.
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