Dualism and its importance for medicine

被引：16
作者：
Switankowsky, I [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
来源：
THEORETICAL MEDICINE AND BIOETHICS | 2000年 / 21卷 / 06期
关键词：
clinical narratives; effective diagnosis; effective treatment; interactive dualism; lived experience of illness; objective perspective; reductionism; subjective perspective; Cartesian dualism;
D O I：
10.1023/A:1026570907667
中图分类号：
B82 [伦理学（道德学）];
学科分类号：
摘要：
Cartesian dualism has been viewed by medical theorists to be one of the chief causes of a reductionist/mechanistic treatment of the patient. Although I aver that Cartesian dualism is one culprit for the misapprehension of the genuine treatment of patients in terms of both mind and body, I argue that interactive dualism which stresses the interaction of mind and body is essential to treat patients with dignity and compassion. Thus, adequate medical care that is humanistic in nature is difficult (if not impossible) to achieve without physicians adhering to a dualistic framework in which the body and person is treated during illness.
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页数：14
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