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Renewing Medicine's basic concepts: on ambiguity.
Philos Ethics Humanit Med
July 2018
Rice Family Fellow in Bioethics and the Humanities, The Hastings Center, 21 Malcolm Gordon Road, Garrison, NY, 10524-4125, USA.
Article Synopsis
- Edmund Pellegrino emphasized the need to rethink medicine's core concepts, like health and illness, due to challenges posed by the industrialized West's cultural climate.
- The concept of normality is critical in this discussion, particularly as scholars in disability studies highlight its ambiguous nature, especially in relation to Deafness and body integrity identity disorder (BIID).
- To enhance medical understanding and practice, both medical professionals and philosophers should prioritize ambiguity as a central concept, challenging the notion of universal medical truths and recognizing the influence of context and experience.