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- George Libman Engel (December 10, 1913 – November 26, 1999) was an American psychiatrist and internist who, along with his colleague John Romano, was instrumental in developing and teaching psychosomatic medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. He is best known for his formulation of the biopsychosocial model, a general theory of illness and healing.
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George Libman Engel (December 10, 1913 – November 26, 1999) was an American psychiatrist and internist who, along with his colleague John Romano, was instrumental in developing and teaching psychosomatic medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York.
The biopsychosocial approach is an attempt to redress the traditional model of biomedicine, with its predominant focus on pathophysiology and biological approaches to disease, and its lack of a comprehensive inclusion of the social and psychological aspects of health and illness. Download to read the full chapter text.
- Marilys Guillemin, Emma Barnard
- 2015
Nov 1, 2005 · George Engel’s own story, his biopsychosocial profile, highlights the influence of his family—especially his uncle and distinguished biomedical stalwart, Emanuel Libman, and his identical twin, Frank, also a physician, whose death in 1963 imposed a deeply personal sense of loss and self-awareness . Dr.
Nov 1, 2015 · Engel was a prolific researcher, medical educator, and writer who championed the biopsychosocial model, which has been widely embraced and practiced in psychiatry and medicine to this day. In the late 1970s, when Engel published his seminal article on the biopsychosocial model, the dominant model of medicine was still the biomedical model.
- Suzanne R. Karl, Jimmie C.B. Holland
- 2015
This model basedon the results of Engel's studies in ulcerative colitis, depression and psychogenic pain, constituted a challenge for biomedicineand the biomedical model.
- G.N. Papadimitriou
- 2017
George L. Engel was born in New York City, where he grew up in the Manhattan townhouse of his mother's brother Emanuel Libman, M.D. A prominent clinician and medical scientist, Libman is perhaps best known for his work on subacute bacterial endocarditis.
George Engel’s own story, his biopsychosocial profile, high-lights the influence of his family—especially his uncle and distin-guished biomedical stalwart, Emanuel Libman, and his identical twin, Frank, also a physician, whose death in 1963 imposed a deeply personal sense of loss and self-awareness (4). Dr.
