Medical Technology and Human Being

Abstract

Despite of the fact that the origine of the medical treatment is as old as the human history, the expression "Medical Technology" has appeared quite recently.The reasons for it are that the medicine did not have the enough basis to call its means as technology, and that the demands of the clients who receive the medical services are particular.In the process of the modernization and the objectivization, in perticular, of the medicine which occured since the 19 century, it appeared that the medicine got the firm foundation at last.But, after the world war, the rise of the "Human Rights"are undermining its basis once again.In particular, from the stand point of the human rights, it is required that the right to persuit the highest welfare, the right of self-determination and the right of equity should be satisfied at least, but, it is unavoidable that the pursuit of the simultaneous realization of these rights leads us into the contradictory situation.Therefore, it is required that, upon the full understanding of the limits of the objectivization, we establish a method for evaluating its effectiveness and construct a system for the social consensus.