Thanks Enzyme
I was just interested as to your opinions from an ethical point of view.

I understand things on the genetic level, did a biology/zoology degree.

I'm talking about things that wouldn't perhaps be seen as resulting in someone being "severely disabled" in the eyes of society today.

Take away medicine, and even relatively minor problems could cause serious damage.

Poor eyesight, colourblindness, susceptability to appendicitis, poor hearing, those kind of things.

In a hunter-gatherer sense, if you can't see the difference between the red berries and the green berries, you could be screwed.

I'm afraid I'm stumbling about a bit, but what I'm really asking is "has medicine harmed the state of huanity, if we were suddenly to face life without it?"
( Cawl, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 12:48, Reply)