Quo Vadis Medical Healing Past Concepts and New Approaches
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 scien...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2009, 2009
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2009 |
| Series: | International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Philosophical and Ethical Foundations
- How Political Is the Future of Health Care? Allocating Scarce Resources in Liberal Democracy
- The Concept of Disease and Medical Action — A Reciprocal Relationship and Its Relevance to Modern Medicine
- Concepts of Healing in History
- Medicine Between Natural Philosophy and Physician's Practice: A Debate Around 400 BC
- Roman Pain and the Rise of Christianity
- A Perfect Healing to All Our Wounds: Religion and Medicine in Judaism
- Chinese Medicine and Homeopathy
- How Chinese Is ‘Chinese Medicine’?
- Medicus Curat, Natura Sanat in Homeopathy
- Acute Health Care and Social Medicine
- Healing In Acute Medical Therapy: Opportunities and Limitations
- The Historical Development of Social Medicine as a Responsibility of the Physician
- Business Concepts
- Unmet Medical Needs and the Role of Pharmaceutical Companies
- A Revolution in Research and Development — The Impact of Biotechnology
- New Approaches in Medicine and Their Constitutional Ramification
- Healing By Gene Therapy — Hype or Hope?
- Biotechnology and the Guarantee of Human Dignity