Matter, Mind, and Medicine : : Transforming the Clinical Method / / Jacques Kriel.
This book critically assesses the implications of modern medicine's claim to be a natural science. Medicine models its scientific and clinical self-understanding on an obsolete positivist conception of science, reality, and consciousness. In this view, the body is modeled as a biological machin...
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| Superior document: | Value Inquiry Book Series ; 93 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2000. |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Value Inquiry Book Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (197 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Editorial Foreword. Guest Editorial. Preface. Acknowledgments. ONE The Story Behind the Story. TWO The Positivistic Natural-Science Paradigm. THREE Biomedicine: The Nature of Positivist Medicine. FOUR The Limitations of Positivist Medicine. FIVE A Comprehensive Model of Science. SIX What Is Reality? SEVEN Reality Is a Complex System. EIGHT What Is Consciousness? NINE Consciousness Is Sensation. TEN And the Flesh Became Mind: Toward an Evolutionary Systems-View of Conscious Animals. ELEVEN Matter, Mind, and Morals. TWELVE From Sensation to Clinical Method. References. About the Author. Index.