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Contemporary health science, influenced by materialism, overlooks the human spirit. Research suggests the brain can integrate spiritual and material perspectives for a holistic understanding of health and well-being.

Area of Science:

  • Philosophy of Medicine
  • Mind-Body Medicine
  • Medical Humanities

Background:

  • Contemporary health science often adopts a materialist perspective, reducing health to mechanistic processes.
  • This approach has historically marginalized the role of the human spirit in health and well-being.
  • Biomedical science's extension of materialism to death and dying exacerbates a conceptual divide between spirit and matter.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the impact of scientific materialism on the understanding of human health and mortality.
  • To explore the conceptual gap between the realms of spirit and matter in contemporary thought.
  • To investigate the potential for integrating spiritual and material perspectives in understanding human experience.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical analysis of contemporary health science trends.

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