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Corpul şi persoana
The Body and the Person

Author(s): Cecilia Tohaneanu
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: Medical humanities; Claude Bernard; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; medical-philosophical research; Fredrik Svenaeus; Michael Polanyi; diversified reality; Evidence Based Medicine

Summary/Abstract: If the border between normal and pathological could be precisely defined, many serious illnesses would progress on a different way and human suffering would diminish. A research project combining medicine and philosophy is motivated by the need to explore on a theoretical basis an experience lived side by side with the Other. A humanistic education for future generations of physicians – a curriculum including “humanities” – would certainly improve the future medical activity, as it would take into account not only the real, objective body, but also the subjective, non-real mind. Health and illness should be seen in the complex relationship between objective conclusions and individual experience.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 60
  • Page Range: 96-98
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Romanian