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Humanistic medicine models, while popular, offer insufficient critiques of biomedicine. True humanism in medicine requires an outcomes-oriented approach focused on a health system's capacity to produce good health outcomes.

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  • Philosophy of Medicine
  • Medical Ethics
  • Health Systems Research

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  • Recent philosophy of medicine advocates for humanistic models to replace or supplement biomedicine.
  • Narrative medicine and phenomenology of medicine are prominent humanistic approaches.
  • Existing humanistic critiques of biomedicine are argued to be insufficient.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the sufficiency of current humanistic medical models.
  • To critique the definitions of biomedicine and humanism within these models.
  • To propose an alternative framework for humanistic medicine.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical analysis of existing humanistic medical theories.
  • Critique of the "straw man" definitions of biomedicine.
  • Development of an "outcomes-oriented" approach to humanistic medicine.

Main Results:

  • Current humanistic approaches present inadequate criticisms of biomedicine.
  • The definition of humanism in these approaches is overly narrow, focusing on the patient-physician relationship.
  • A broader definition of medicine is necessary to understand humanism.

Conclusions:

  • Humanism in medicine extends beyond the patient-physician dyad.
  • An outcomes-oriented approach redefines humanism in medicine.
  • A health system's capacity to generate positive health outcomes is central to humanistic medicine.