ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an analysis from an ethics of care perspective of the pressures and problems that technology can generate in the medical context. Medical technology is advancing at tremendous rates, and it can offer vital resources for responding to illness. But technology also comes with unintended consequences. It increases the costs of medicine, it can easily become an imperative rather than a choice, and implementing new technologies often creates blind spots about the ways that it does not benefit those on whom it is used. An ethics of care provides a reminder that the primary goal of medicine is care. When technology is subservient to the provision of care, it functions well, but when technology becomes an end in itself, it can be harmful.
