Den biomedicinska modellens begränsning och dess konsekvens för helhetssyn i vården och för kvalitativ forskning

Abstract

Medicine is dominated today by the so called biomedical model of sickness. This model ontologically reduces Man to biochemistry and every kind of sickness to disease, and therefore expresses an ontologically reductionistic view of Man. This view is logically incompatible with the humanistic view of Man, and a holistic concept of health. Given the distinction between disease and illness, the model is in most cases necessary and sufficient for the treatment of disease but for certain kinds of illness it might be neither necessary nor sufficient. In order to be a fruitful model it should be radically changed so that it can be supplemented by models based on a humanistic view of Man and a holistic concept of heath. A complementary model would have positive effects on medical praxis, health care in general and on the Science of Health Care.