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DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-40246
Die Sprache der Medikamente und der Verlust der Subjektivität[1]
Zur Entwicklung der Medizin in den Vereinigten StaatenThe Language of Drugs and Loss of Subjectiveness Notes on the Development of Medicine in the United States of AmericaPublication History
Publication Date:
26 June 2003 (online)
Summary
The shift from humanistic to technological approaches in psychiatric treatment parallels a far broader, dramatic challenge to the future of humanity qua humanity than anything that happened before in our history. This presentation will mention - and illustrate with a few concrete examples - the changes in the medical field, and especially in psychiatric treatment, in the United State, adding a few comparisons with analogous developments in Switzerland. An attempt will be made to view the medical-psychiatric problems as expressions of universal problems resulting both from the effects of the bewildering technological expansion and from the consequent loss of subjectivity upon current human consciousness. The enormous challenge to, and profound responsibility of everyone, but especially to the people in the fields of family medicine and psychiatry, will be underlined.
1 Dies ist die Zusammenfassung eines Vortrages anlässlich der Preisverleihung für Studenten im Rahmen der Ascona-Gespräche 2001
1 Dies ist die Zusammenfassung eines Vortrages anlässlich der Preisverleihung für Studenten im Rahmen der Ascona-Gespräche 2001