(P1-109) Humanism in Disaster Medicine

Humanism in Medicine and Psychiatry *

When Hippocrates lashed out against superstition and wrote his treatise on epilepsy, he seems to have provided a formula and he indicated a trend for the whole history of the relationship between medicine and psychiatry. The trend, under different guises and expressed in different languages and terminology, is as potent today as it was twenty-four hundred years ago. Epilepsy, Hippocrates almost...

Integrative medicine and the quest for humanism in medicine.

The recent issues of this journal have repeatedly presented considerations on the use and appropriateness of the term ‘integrative medicine’ (IM) and its relatives such as ‘complementary medicine’ (CM), ‘complementary and alternative medicine’ (CAM), ‘integrative and complementary medicine’ (CIM). The editorial board has encouraged a broad discussion on the topic; symptomatically, the editors t...

Humanism and the Art of Medicine

Daniel Lewis explores the importance of humanistic values to modern physicians This journal article is available in Momentum: http://repository.upenn.edu/momentum/vol1/iss2/6

Disaster Medicine

Combined with the author's lucid writing style and the intimate portraits ofthose individuals described in the text, the present work presents some fascinating insights into our understanding ofthe stress-disease connection. The book's most debilitating weakness comes from the heavy reliance on one-sided case-report and anecdotal data in many of Mate's inferences and conclusions. Presenting dat...

ethical dilemmas in disaster medicine