Quo Vadis Medical Healing Past Concepts and New Approaches /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Elm, Susanna (Editor), Willich, Stefan N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 44
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Public health.; Medicine > History.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Philosophy of Medicine.; History of Medicine.

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...