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Reflections on humanizing biomedicine.

James A Marcum¹

¹Department of Philosophy, Baylor University, One Bear Place, Waco, TX 76798, USA. James_Marcum@baylor.edu

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

|August 30, 2008

Summary

Modern medicine

Area of Science:

Philosophy of Medicine
Medical Ethics
Healthcare Quality

Background:

Biomedicine, while achieving medical advancements, has paradoxically contributed to a quality-of-care crisis.
Patients often feel disenfranchised within the current healthcare system.
Humanizing biomedicine is proposed as a solution to address this crisis.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate and compare the philosophical boundaries of traditional biomedicine and its humanized versions.
To analyze the metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical underpinnings of both approaches.
To evaluate the adequacy of proposed philosophical shifts in resolving the quality-of-care crisis.

Main Methods:

Comparative analysis of philosophical frameworks.
Examination of metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical tenets.

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Literature review of medical commentary on humanizing healthcare.

Main Results:

Biomedicine is characterized by mechanistic monism, objective knowing, and emotionally detached concern.
Humanized medicine shifts towards dualism/holism, subjective knowing, and empathic care.
These philosophical shifts represent a re-evaluation of medical practice's core principles.

Conclusions:

The study explores whether changes in metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical boundaries can resolve the quality-of-care crisis.
Humanizing biomedicine involves a fundamental reorientation of medical philosophy.
The effectiveness of these philosophical adjustments in practice requires further discussion.