Abstract
Nietzsch’s On the Genealogy of Morality (1994) is used to explore recent changes in medical practice. Characterized by boundaries that define scientific objectivity, the biological stratum or the area of focus and concern (disease and the disembodied being), and the professional distance that is maintained in the healthcare encounter, the noble morality of contemporary medicine is being challenged in an act of ressentiment by the society’s slave morality that is inverting values and beliefs currently or previously held. Medical paternalism is in the process of giving way to consumer sovereignty, participation in decision-making, and the rediscovery of the embodied being. Nietzsche warns that dominant slave morality and the inversion of moral values may ultimately be detrimental to the advancement of man.
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