Errant ways of human society / Julius Bauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauer, Julius, 1887, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Vantage Press, 1961.

Summary:

"The fascinating progress of our civilization during the last one hundred years was possible only by increasing specialization of all kinds of human activities. This trend prevails in technology, science, biology, humanities such as linguistics, medicine. In medicine the ever increasing legitimate specialization has history, geography, or anthropology, in jurisprudence, and in led to tremendous progress in our knowledge about the normal and abnormal function of various organs. It has yielded many new valuable tools for diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, skillful craftsmanship developed to an unheard of mastery. Each part of the human being, if in need, has better chances to be restored today than ever before. Laboratories supply us with new methods for diagnosis and management of disturbed functions. The attention of the doctor shifted from the sick individual to the laboratory reports about morphological (biopsy), biochemical, immunological and functional tests. Much of what had previously belonged to the art of medicine became an apparently more solid and reliable result of the science of medicine. More science, but also more mechanization and depersonalization of medicine, was the result. Time and again it has been emphasized that a person is more than the sum of his parts and that the person with a disease, rather than the disease of a person, must be taken care of. Mutual repercussions of organic diseases on the mental state and of mental disorders on various organs cannot be recognized by laboratory tests. Only thorough study and knowledge of the "person behind the disease" enables us fully to understand why he is suffering and what should be done to relieve or cure his sufferings. Respect for the individuality of person who is different from all other beings demands a holistic concept of medicine--that is, integration of all parts of a human being into one unique entity: the individual person. For practical medical purposes we had to study the "person behind the disease." For sociological purposes we are going to investigate the "society behind the person."- Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).

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