| A Systems Analysis of Medicine (Sam): Healing Medicine Contributor(s): Bryson, Ken A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3838212673 ISBN-13: 9783838212678 Publisher: Ibidem Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Policy |
| Series: Studies in Medical Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 258 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is a must read for anyone interested in transforming the impersonal character of the medical experience into a personalized, relational, spiritual, and holistic dialogue about human health. It promotes a holistic vision of the doctor-patient relationship, a medicine that ought to be based on the totality of the human experience rather than on the reductive view of the patient as a person with a certain disease. Ken A. Bryson describes the character of medicine as the gateway to holistic healing and argues that we need to secure the ethical foundation of universal medicine as not relative to a cultural setting, thus establishing the Oath of Hippocrates as the universal gateway to human dignity. This view emboldens us to raise medicine from the level of an impersonal technological encounter with disease to its rightful place as a sacred activity that includes all the levels of the human experience. The book offers practical suggestions on how to accomplish that objective. |