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Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH
> What is "Healing"? Reflections on Diagnostic
Criteria, Nosology, and Etiology
This article examines the conceptual
history and contemporary usages of the term “healing.”
In response to longstanding definitional ambiguity, reflections
are offered on what are termed the diagnostic criteria, nosology,
and etiology of healing. First, a summary is provided of how healing
has been defined within medicine. Second, the dimensionality of
healing is discussed. Third, healing’s putative determinants
are outlined. For biomedicine, healing mainly concerns repair of
wounds or lesions and is unidimensional. For complementary medicine,
by contrast, healing has been defined alternatively as an intervention,
an outcome, and a process — or all of these at once —
and is multidimensional, impacting multiple systems from the cellular
to the psychosocial and beyond. Notwithstanding these usages, a
review of medical texts reveals that healing is rarely defined,
nor is its dimensionality or determinants described. Persistent
lack of critical attention to the meaning of “healing”
has implications for medical research and practice.
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Fonte: Explore 2017; 13:244-256 &
2017 - http://www.explorejournal.com/article/S1550-8307(17)30109-X/pdf
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