Dear Keith.
Yes, I would say that any responsible profession eventually faces its own social role and has to deal with larger issues. However, medicine is peculiarly focused on restoring the biology of living. Death is its biggest challenge.
You are right that design tends to extend human abilities beyond what exists today and had to face the larger issues earlier.
Klaus
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> On Jan 5, 2016, at 2:22 AM, Keith Russell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear Klaus,
>
> Following the useful comparisons that you make, it is is interesting to
> note the responses of medicine/health to the huge shift that has taken
> place as medicine/health have had to come to terms with society
> implicating them in DEATH/DYING etc. Medicine/health have had to embrace
> many aspects of change that design have had to embrace.
>
> Cheers
> keith
>
> On 5/01/2016, 4:28 PM, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD
> studies and related research in Design on behalf of Klaus Krippendorff"
> <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> however, by comparison with design, medicine has the advantage of a
>> clearer definition of its objects of its attention: patients in need for
>> cures and treatments. the biology of human beings doesn't really change
>> much except for new diseases showing up, posing problems that the medical
>> community seeks to solve. a patient is a relatively small units (although
>> medicine can also tackle epidemics, i.e., aggregates of weakly connected
>> patients).
>
>
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