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Jan 1, 2007 · George Engel’s primary philosophical concern was to fight the powerful belief (or perhaps delusion) that medicine was evolving into a pure physical science, an extension of biochemistry and...
Nov 1, 2005 · PDF/EPUB. George Engel’s basic convictions are best known from his “biopsychosocial model,” a general theory of illness and healing (1 – 3).
ENGEL’S VISION. The nephew and protégé of a prominent pathologist-bacteriologist, George Engel was first a scientist, then a physician [1]. Engel’s early work focused on psycho-social influences on physiology, and later on these same influences on the onset, course, and outcome of disease.
The biopsychosocial model, which was deeply influential on psychiatry following its introduction by George L. Engel in 1977, has recently made a comeback. Derek Bolton and Grant Gillett have argued that Engel’s original formulation offered a promising general framework for thinking about health and disease, but that this promise requires new ...
Objective: This essay reviews George Engel's clinical and scientific contributions within the context of a personal and professional biography. An examination of the response to the abrupt loss of human bonds resulting from the attack on the World Trade Center is used to verify Dr Engel's belief that relationship and communication are central ...
- Peter A Engel, Anna G Engel
- 2002
George Engel, M.D. (1913–1999) G eorge Engel’s basic convictions are best known from his “biopsychosocial model,” a general theory of illness and healing (1–3). When these ideas were forming in the early 1950s, he had already made a name for himself in neurology and medicine through his studies of fainting, delirium, and ulcerative ...
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Forty years ago, George L. Engel (1913 1999), a prom-inent scholar in the psychosomatic movement of the past century, published The Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for Biomedicine in Science [1] . The article had a considerable impact on the scientific community and attracted more than 3,500 citations in the Web of Sci-ence.
