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Mar 29, 2019 · The first chapter outlines George Engel’s proposal of a new biopsychosocial model for medicine and healthcare in papers 40 years ago and reviews its current status. The model is popular and much invoked in clinical and health education settings and has claim to be the overarching framework for contemporary healthcare.
- Derek Bolton, Grant Gillett
- 10.1007/978-3-030-11899-0_1
- 2019
- 2019/03/29
Engel pointed to the dangers of the alliance between com-mercial interests in medicine and biomedical reduction-ism [1] . Indeed, corporate interest in medical science is likely to highlight the importance of single etiological fac-tors and therapeutic agents in the management of disease.
In the work of the physician, Dr Engel proposed disciplined study of those bonds to enrich personal connections, to promote understanding of patient and illness and to sustain the physician through emotionally and intellectually meaningful work.
- Peter A Engel, Anna G Engel
- 2002
Psychoanalysis and Dr. Engel’s studies with Theresa Benedek played a part in his broadened syncretic view, providing a concept of symbolic use of the body for the expression of fantasy, conflict, or affect.
discipline. The exclusionists regard mental illness as a myth and would eliminate psychiatry from medicine. Among physicians and psychia-trists today the reductionists are the true believers, the exclusionists are the apostates, while both condemn as heretics those who dare to ques-tion the ultimate truth of the biomedical model and advocate a more
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Jul 21, 2017 · The biopsychosocial model outlined in Engel’s classic Science paper four decades ago emerged from dissatisfaction with the biomedical model of illness, which remains the dominant healthcare model.
