Philosophical Foundations of Health Education

First published in 1990 Philosophical Foundations of Health Education analyses the dogmatism of conventional medicine as a form of scientism and tries to determine the extent to which the state of health education has been perverted by an uncritical acceptance of these dogmas.

List of contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Genesis of Reductionist Medical Science 2. Scientism in Medicine and the Crisis in Health Care 3. Integrating the Philosophical Foundations of Holistic Health Education 4. Towards a Holistic Understanding of Health and Disease 5. Prerequisites for Health 6. The Evolution of Primary Health Care 7. Health Education and the Demystification of Medicine 8. Conscientization and Health for All Notes Index

About the author

Ronald S. Laura and Sandra Heaney

Summary

First published in 1990 Philosophical Foundations of Health Education analyses the dogmatism of conventional medicine as a form of scientism and tries to determine the extent to which the state of health education has been perverted by an uncritical acceptance of these dogmas.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra Heaney, Heaney Sandra, Ronald S. Laura, Laura Ronald S.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032351773
• ISBN: 978-1-032-35177-3
• No. of pages: 246
• Weight: 353 g
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Philosophy of Science