Healthcare is very much dependent on the model of the patient that
is assumed by healthcare providers. The current model derives from
a chemical/mechanical view of the patient body. Simply put: we are
healthy if all of our mechanical parts are working properly and if
all of the chemicals in our body are in the right proportions and
have the appropriate reactions. This view is based on philosophical
accounts of the body that go back to Paracelsus, Descartes, Boyle
and others. It became the central basis of medical practice only in
the late 19th Century after several hundred years of research and
professional politics. The Mechanical Patient traces the
intellectual development of the chemical/mechanical model of the
patient and its implementation. This book names the problem that we
have with the mechanical patient and prepares us to respond to its
exaggerated place in our society. It provides a historical and
conceptual background and explains how the chemical/mechanical
model of health gained such a strong hold over our thinking and
took the place of the earlier Galenic humoral model. It sketches a
promising outline of a more humanized model for understanding
health and calls for help to fully articulate it. In that way, it
joins a growing movement to go beyond our current
chemical/mechanical orientation.
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