Wisdom and the art of healing
| Autor: | Zbigniew Szawarski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Physician-Patient Relations
Medical knowledge Health (social science) Social Values Health Policy media_common.quotation_subject Judgement Medical law Trust Sketch Ideal (ethics) Education Epistemology Judgment Philosophy of biology Knowledge Philosophy of medicine Physicians Humans Personality Clinical Competence Psychology Social psychology ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS media_common |
| Zdroj: | Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 7:185-193 |
| ISSN: | 1386-7423 |
| DOI: | 10.1023/b:mhep.0000034324.74688.fa |
| Popis: | The concept of the art of healing is intrinsically connected with the idea of healing powers. There are at least three possible approaches to that idea and all of them have different implications for the problem of medical wisdom. These are: the idea of the healing powers of nature, the idea of the healing powers of science, and the idea of the healing powers of physician's personality. Having critically discussed those ideas I sketch an ideal of a wise physician as someone who has a particular kind of knowledge, good judgement, and self-trust. Medical knowledge is certainly a necessary condition of being a wise doctor but it is not the sufficient one. And this is why patients generally prefer to seek help of "naturally wise physicians". |
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