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Komesaroff, P. (2013). Medicine and the Task of Healing. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 1(2), 115-116. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2013.20
Paul A. Komesaroff. "Medicine and the Task of Healing". International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 1, 2, 2013, 115-116. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2013.20
Komesaroff, P. (2013). 'Medicine and the Task of Healing', International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 1(2), pp. 115-116. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2013.20
Komesaroff, P. Medicine and the Task of Healing. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2013; 1(2): 115-116. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2013.20

Medicine and the Task of Healing

Article 7, Volume 1, Issue 2, August 2013, Page 115-116  XML PDF (540 K)
Document Type: Perspective
DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2013.20
Author
Paul A. Komesaroff
Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Abstract
To understand the traditional description of medicine as a practice of healing, it is necessary to examine its relationships with both science and ethics. The “scientific” component of medicine includes an acknowledgment of the influence of social, cultural and environmental factors on the functioning of the organism. The “ethical” component is often presented as merely supplementary but actually provides the conditions of possibility of knowledge. “Healing” then appears as what joins the two together: the site where science is applied in the service of ethics and where ethics encounters science. This perspective allows us to reconsider medicine as a project to healing complex wounds that manifest themselves at the physical, psychological, emotional and cultural levels.
Keywords
Medicine; Ethics; Science; Healing
Main Subjects
Health Policy Ethics; Philosophy of Health; Philosophy of Science
References

1. Komesaroff PA. Objectivity, science and society. London: Routledge; 2009.

2. Komesaroff PA. Experiments in love and death. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press; 2008. doi: 10.1007/s11673-009-9205-y  

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