How the postmodern ethos challenges medical professionalism
Postmodern cultural values have seriously impacted medical care and the patient-physician relationship. Corporate control of medical care, computerization of medical information and consumerism in the clinical encounter, plus the destruction of the myth of the physician are all embodiments of postmodern values.
Postmodern thinkers such as Foucault, Lyotard, Levinas, and Bauman offer powerful insights that can be applied to understand how current values have changed medical practice, including issues such as …
