Showing papers on "Eudaimonia published in 1970"

Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge

Abstract: "Must be judged as a landmark in medical sociology."-Norman Denzin, "Journal of Health and Social Behavior" ""Profession of Medicine" is a challenging monograph; the ideas presented are stimulating and thought provoking. . . . Given the expanding domain of what illness is and the contentions of physicians about their rights as professionals, Freidson wonders aloud whether expertise is becoming a mask for privilege and power. . . . "Profession of Medicine" is a landmark in the sociological analysis of the professions in modern society."-Ron Miller, "Sociological Quarterly" "This is the first book that I know of to go to the root of the matter by laying open to view the fundamental nature of the professional claim, and the structure of professional institutions."-Everett C. Hughes, "Science"

Who Shall Live? Medicine, Technology, Ethics

Abstract: A new book dealing with the general topic of medical ethics should be brought to the attention of the medical profession. Six authors, none of them physicians, participated in a symposium covering a wide range of topics, from anthropology to theology. Deserving particular mention is the paper by Margaret Mead which, although quite rambling, helpfully emphasizes the relativity of ethical standards and ethical situations. Joseph Fletcher, in another rather loose and wide-ranging study, emphasizes the discrepancies between private interest and social interest. "The welfare of the many comes before the welfare of the few... The individual may rightly be sacrificed to the social good." Other subjects are "Technology and Value," "Abortion and the Law," "The Ethics of Genetic Control," and "Ethics in Modern Medicine." (This latter contribution is furnished by a German professor of Systematic Theology.) But important topics are not adequately developed. The book, vastly uneven, suffers severely from