Tuesday, May 15, 2007

MEDICINE AND MAGIC

With the advancement in medical science our expectation of medical miracles has got inflated and we wish that the modern medical treatments could get us rid of any disease. Thomas Szasz compares olden times with modern ones indicating what has gone wrong with us.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine, now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

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