Theoretical Medicine: A Proposal for Reconceptualizing Medicine As A Science of Actions  

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Lolas, Fernando

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 21 no. 6 (Dec. 1996), page 659-670.
Topik: Alternative Medicine; Medical Theory; Medical Epistemology

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: MM80.6 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The main task of critical theory of medicine should be to develop a perspectival, context-fair, and multidimensional science of actions which integrates both diversity and heterogeneity within medicine without eliminating either one. Such a theory should employ diversity in the following areas: (1) in systems, subsystems, and professions, because different medical professions embody different health-care subsystems, thereby influencing the way man power is utilized,(2) in actors, (e.g., patients, health-care experts, and society), processes, and situations, because each actor pottentially conceptualizes health, illness, and desired outcomes differently; and (#) in models of medicine (i.e., as an object science versus an action science). Situational influences modify concepts and explanatory models; even the particular terms, such as illness, disease, and sickness, are not necessarily concordant with each other.

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