阐明重症监护的价值及其指证,看上去似不是讨论它的社会和伦理问题的范畴,实则不然,这样着手考虑是最恰当的。重症监护中所用技术项目和涉及到的技术操作,是不难以科学方法径直阐明的。问题是通过这些处理取得的终点,尚未阐述到十分清晰的地步。如果这里的关系只是严格限于科学卫生保健或医疗实践与病人福利的关系,则讨论起来是比较简便的。遗憾的是:当医疗实践与病人 Explaining the value of intensive care and its testimony does not seem to be a category for discussing its social and ethical issues, but it is not the case, and it is most appropriate to start with this consideration. The technical projects used in intensive care and the technical operations involved are not straightforward to elucidate scientifically. The problem is that the end point achieved through these processes has not yet been explained to a very clear point. If the relationship here is strictly limited to the relationship between scientific health care or medical practice and patient welfare, the discussion is relatively simple. Unfortunately: When it comes to medical practice and patients