Getting personal: Can systems medicine integrate scientific and humanistic conceptions of the patient?

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 942-952

  Vogt, Henrik ^a   Ulvestad, Elling ^b,c   Eriksen, Thor Eirik ^d,e   Getz, Linn ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d University of North Norway   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

agency; biopsychosocial medicine; downward causation; emergence; experience; free will; general practice; generalism; holism; humanistic medicine; intentionality; medically unexplained symptoms; mind body problem; multi morbidity; narrative medicine; ontology; patient centred medicine; person centred medicine; personalized medicine; personhood; phenomenology; reductionism; root causes; synthesis; systems biology; systems medicine; systems psychiatry; teleology; the two cultures

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEHUMANIZATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EPISTEMOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOLISTIC CARE; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MOTIVATION; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS THEORY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONCEPT FORMATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMANISM; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SCIENCE;

CONCEPT FORMATION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANISM; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SCIENCE; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 84923011094     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jep.12251     Document Type: Review

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