Die Tuberkulose in ihrer Beziehung zu Individuum und Gesellschaft

Summary In confidential medical service, it has become the custom to judge the individual according to criteria which have been won from statistical studies on groups of people. This is a violation of the fundamental principles of logic and of scientific methods in general. So long as it is only a question of a free agreement between the doctor and the subject of the examination (as in the case of private life insurance), there is no objection; but when the vital interests of the subject examined depend upon the result of the examination (as in the case of immigration, choice of profession, nationalisation, marriage, etc.), then this procedure is a serious abuse. The individual must notde facto be put at a disadvantage by calculations based on probability. This situation is discussed in relation to the prognosis of tuberculous processes in man.

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Tuberkulosefürsorgestelle.