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Activity C06b ER: Essay

February 12, 2020

Expository Reflection

We live in a place where we all want to find cures for diseases and different ways to help

people. More and more years pass and we need new technology that will help us with this

problem. According to Nicholas Rescher, “Technological escalation, operative throughout the

natural sciences and certainly in the medical field, serves to account for the recent rise of high-

technology medicine that is a characteristic feature of present-day frontiers of research and

therapy” (New knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences, pg.37). “The issue I primarily want to

pose in this context comes in the more comfortable form of a resource-allocation question.

Specifically, it is the problem of cost-benefits in medical research” (pg,37). Nicholas believed

that the level of new technology that science medicine needs as time goes would become a more

difficult and expensive problem. I automatically agree with his believe, because it’s true that we

need technology to improve our research and now in day these products are really expensive.

Reference:

Bondeson, W.B. 1982. ‘New Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences : Some Moral
Implications of Its Acquisition, Possession, and Use’.