SCIENCE AS A HUMANITY

The humanity of science

Science can provide cures and improve health, and it can also make us more humane.

Giambattista Vico's science of humanity

Each section is broken down into subsections ; thus 'Historiography' consists of 'History of historical writing' and 'Studies of historians'. Book and article titles are grouped separately and individual entries have full citations, together with a very brief descriptive comment in many instances. There is a name index only. Many references to sociology are listed, and although 'Psychohistory',...

Preserving Our Humanity as Therapists

Psychotherapists have traditionally embraced core values and beliefs that differ significantly from many values and beliefs that pervade contemporary, commercially oriented Western cultures. With their clients, therapists often question or challenge the culture’s materialism, consumerism, appeals to vanity and greed, disdain of dependency and vulnerability, and abetment of narcissistic entitlem...

Humanity before Science: Narrative Medicine, Clinical Practice, and Medical Education.

Social justice and human caring: A model of caring science as a hopeful paradigm for moral justice for humanity.

Jean Watson, PhD. RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, is distinguished professor of nursing and Murchinson-Scoville Chair in Caring Science at the University of Colorado Denver and Anschutz Medical Center, and founder and executive director of the Watson Caring Science Institute, The only true standard of greatness of any civilization is our sense of social and moral responsibility in translating material wealth...