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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer
ISBN-13
9789048180318
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104106545
Product Key Features
Author
S. Elm, Stefan N. Willich
Publication Name
Quo Vadis Medical Healing: Past concepts and New Approaches
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Biology
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
172 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Volume
44
Item Weight
289g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine