Table 1.

Features of Technocracy in Health Care.

Features of Technocracy in Health Care
Perpetuates a crisis of the human person
Results in domination and alienation of individuals
Involves the subordination of patient to institution
Overvalues technology
Contributes to a loss of moral reasoning and analysis
Contributes to the medicalization of death and promotes a myth of immortality
Seeks to not only improve upon nature but to control nature
Is primarily profit driven and not necessarily value driven
Is intolerant of alternate ways of doing things

Source. This table was adapted from Davis-Floyd (2001, S21).