[Health and disease in leisure-time families]

This paper is concerned with the actual anthropological background of medical practice. Cultural differentiation and specialisation have led to a splitting of all areas of living in multiple ways. This process of fission is pathogenic when areas belonging together are not lived together respectively are not diagnosed and treated together or when single aspects are neglected seriously. The common recognition of separated areas as "dual entities" requires an adapted perception and a communicating, complementary approach to medical questions.