In medicine the understanding and interpretation of the complex
reality of illness currently refers either to an organismic
approach that focuses on the physical or to a 'holistic' approach
that takes into account the patient's human sociocultural
involvement. Yet as the papers of this collection show, the
suffering human person refers ultimately to his/her existential
sphere. Hence, praxis is supplemented by still other perspectives
for valuation and interpretation: ethical, spiritual, and
religious. Can medicine ignore these considerations or push them to
the side as being subjective and arbitrary?
Phenomenology/philosophy-of-life recognizes all of the above
approaches to be essential facets of the Human Condition
(Tymieniecka). This approach holds that all the facets of the Human
Condition have equal objectivity and legitimacy. It completes the
accepted medical outlook and points the way toward a new medical
humanism'.
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