书目名称 | Quo Vadis Medical Healing | 副标题 | Past Concepts and Ne | 编辑 | Susanna Elm,Stefan N. Willich | 视频video | | 概述 | A unique interdisciplinary approach.Intersecting views on future trajectory of medical healing.Including concepts of complementary and alternative medicine.Discusses legal ramifications | 丛书名称 | International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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 o | 出版日期 | Book 2009 | 关键词 | Preventive Medicine; Public Health; bioethics; complementary and alternative medicine; death; gene therap | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8942-8 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-8031-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-8942-8Series ISSN 1567-8008 Series E-ISSN 2351-955X | issn_series | 1567-8008 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 |
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