Medical healing implies knowledge of the assumptions that
underlie our understanding of "health," and, concomitantly, how we
define well being and its opposites, illness and disease. Today,
health, health care (business, wellness, recreation), and medicine
(especially research-driven scientific medicine) have become
separate entities with different institutions, budgets, marketing
philosophies and "corporate cultures." Furthermore, healing is
individual and subjective, yet at the same time also culturally
determined. The present volume brings together papers on these
topics in an unique interdisciplinary approach. The book provides
an ethical framework for healthcare from a political perspective.
It discusses definitions of the terminology of healing and health
and their ethical and medical implications including their
historical contexts. A separate section expands the theme of the
cultural constructedness of healing by the concepts of traditional
Chinese medicine and homeopathy. Modern medicine has a strong focus
on acute care, which urgently needs to place greater emphasis on
preventive medicine including the crucial importance of social
factors on health and on the emergence of "public health." The
point of view of Business Concepts, their potential and limitations
are by no means neglected and the legal ramifications of genetic
research and innovative medical strategies with regard to some of
our most foundational notions are discussed.
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