The tacit-explicit connection: Polanyian integrative philosophy and a neo-polanyian medical epistemology

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 547-568

  Jha, S R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

'from to' and 'from at'; Action Guiding Model; Gestalt Model; Integration; Integrative Philosophy; Intellectual Passion and heuristic striving; Meaning; Semiotic Model; Tacit knowing; Two poles of knowledge

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MODEL; PATIENT CARE; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

ETHICS, MEDICAL; EXISTENTIALISM; GESTALT THEORY; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 0032409081     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009995808163     Document Type: Article

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