Recent criticisms of medicine converge on fundamental questions about the aim of medicine. The main task of this paper is to propose an account of the aim of medicine. Discussing and rejecting the initially plausible proposal according to which medicine is pathocentric, the paper presents and defends the Autonomy Thesis, which holds that medicine is not pathocentric, but sanocentric, aiming to promote health with the final aim to enhance autonomy. The paper closes by considering the objection that the Autonomy Thesis is overly permissive and allows many highly controversial procedures as legitimate parts of medicine.

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医学的目的。以精神为中心和自治论文

最近对医学的批评集中在有关医学目标的基本问题上。本文的主要任务是提出对医学目标的解释。本文讨论并拒绝了最初看似合理的医学以病态为中心的主张，提出并捍卫了自主论，该论点认为医学不是病态中心的，而是以健康为中心的，旨在促进健康，最终目的是增强自主性。本文最后考虑了这样的反对意见，即自主论过于宽容，允许许多高度争议的程序作为医学的合法部分。