Knowing When to Stop: The Limits of Medicine

Hastings Center Report 21 (3):5-8 (1991)
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Abstract

Baconian science, a tool for plundering nature, has impelled physicians to insist on medical treatment even when it is futile. The Hippocratic tradition of medicine teaches us instead to acknowledge nature's limits.

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