Biomedicine evolved from art to science. Based on the science, biomedicine built its culture. The scientific biomedical culture cannot cope with individual needs expressed during a consultation. The doctor-patient relationship, more than a simple encounter where biomedicine can flex its muscles against a disease, is the expected moment where the patient's illness will be alleviated. The scientific construct "disease" has no correlation with the social construct "illness". Doctor and patient are, therefore, not in opposing fields but in different universes. It is time for a paradigm shift.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.29890 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Flamenbaum, Jaime. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Division of Experimental Medicine.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001681484, proquestno: MQ55056, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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