Notes on an Evolutionary Medicine
@article{Weiner1998NotesOA, title={Notes on an Evolutionary Medicine}, author={H. Weiner}, journal={Psychosomatic Medicine}, year={1998}, volume={60}, pages={510-520} }
Objective Medicine does not have a comprehensive theory of health, ill-health, and disease. Its explanations of disease are firmly rooted in pathological anatomy brought about by infection, intoxication, trauma, and mutations in genes. Because medical concepts have been influenced mainly by classical physics, it is mechanistic, materialistic, deterministic, reductionistic, linear-causal, and strongly biased toward proximate explanations of disease. Of late, many thoughtful persons have… CONTINUE READING
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