Medicine and science have advanced substantially to the modern day. To shed light on this fact and how recent advance we take for granted came to light, it has been 44 years that Homosexuality was removed from the official Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Although this period of progression give us many questions ponder over and look for solutions, but there is no doubt that most, if not all science, is not blind. The first thing that one has to look it in regards to the inability of science to be blind is the source of funding and investment. The money goes where it is can be seen to be the most profitable for a company and as a result, many services that can help lower class individuals are kept at the bottom of the totem pole while treatments that upper-middle-class insurance providers can pay for are kept. Impoverished people are not helped much because of a lower standard of insurance and inability to keep health up to par either due to working conditions or the lack of knowledge needed to keep themselves healthy[1]. In regards to race, bioethicists are unable to approach the topic as well as the inclusion of different cultures[2]. Many aspects of other cultures and races are incompatible with the western canon of bioethics, as other perspectives from people of color show different sides to the bioethical worldview that stems outside of Judeo-Christian belief that many tenants of bioethics rest on. There is a serious lack of inclusion of other races and cultures when it comes to race and bioethics. The stagnation in dealing with other cultures in races within doctors’ offices[3] and even research studies like Tuskegee which ended in 1972 show that there are many internal prejudices that need to be addressed. The most recent development for medicine is the emerging population of Trans individuals and the issues that they need help with in regards to transitioning, wellness screenings, risk factors in different individuals and basic discourse in patient-doctor contact. Due to the novelty of focused research and medical treatment for Trans individuals, it is not universally understood by doctors or physicians and outside dense populations it can actually be extremely hard to find care and research for issues in regards to the not only trans but the entire LGBTQ community. With all three factors of these put into perspective, it’s actually quite hard for science to be blind. Science in these respects of human issues is as specific as its variables, and, unfortunately, with humans, there are infinite amounts of variables at hand, and it can only advance as much as the researchers in control of the studies or physicians in control of medical care want it to. The idea of science advancing to a state of absolute blindness is an idea of personifying a massive subject, which is the incorrect way of going about this. Science will always have an aspect of human error because it's entirely reliant on humans, but it can also contrast have the benefit of ingenuity to accelerate it forward. Although we can’t expect science to be always blind, we can always expect it to move forward, and grow to be more inclusive.
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