Overview
- A unique interdisciplinary approach
- Intersecting views on future trajectory of medical healing
- Including concepts of complementary and alternative medicine
- Discusses legal ramifications
Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 44)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Chinese Medicine and Homeopathy
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Acute Health Care and Social Medicine
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New Approaches in Medicine and Their Constitutional Ramification
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About this book
Medical healing implies knowledge of the assumptions that underlie our understanding of "health," and, concomitantly, how we define well being and its opposites, illness and disease. Today, health, health care (business, wellness, recreation), and medicine (especially research-driven scientific medicine) have become separate entities with different institutions, budgets, marketing philosophies and "corporate cultures". Furthermore, healing is individual and subjective, yet at the same time also culturally determined. The present volume brings together papers on these topics in an unique interdisciplinary approach. The book provides an ethical framework for healthcare from a political perspective. It discusses definitions of the terminology of healing and health and their ethical and medical implications including their historical contexts. A separate section expands the theme of the cultural constructedness of healing by the concepts of traditional Chinese medicine and homeopathy. Modern medicine has a strong focus on acute care, which urgently needs to place greater emphasis on preventive medicine including the crucial importance of social factors on health and on the emergence of "public health". The point of view of Business Concepts, their potential and limitations are by no means neglected and the legal ramifications of genetic research and innovative medical strategies with regard to some of our most foundational notions are discussed.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The book aims to pique interest in the concept of medical healing, and shed light on how a diverse array of fields can approach the topic. … it will be most useful for bioethicists and physicians with a broad interest in the philosophy of medicine." (Nathaniel J Brown, Doody’s Review Service, April, 2009)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quo Vadis Medical Healing
Book Subtitle: Past Concepts and New Approaches
Editors: Susanna Elm, Stefan N. Willich
Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8942-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8941-1Published: 24 January 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8031-8Published: 22 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8942-8Published: 16 December 2008
Series ISSN: 1567-8008
Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 172
Topics: Public Health, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Philosophy of Medicine, History of Medicine