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At the end of his fine essay, “The Diseases of Civilization,” René Dubos writes
The disorders of the body and the mind are to a very large extent the consequences of inadequate responses to the environment. They involve not only a particular organ but the organism as a whole. For this reason, the practice of medicine demands of the physician a holistic attitude that goes beyond that of the experimental scientist.1
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George Rosen, “Medicine as a Function of Society,” Mainstreams of Medicine, ed. by Lester S. King ( Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1971 ), pp. 26–38.
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Wartofsky, M.W. (1975). Organs, Organisms and Disease: Human Ontology and Medical Practice. In: Engelhardt, H.T., Spicker, S.F. (eds) Evaluation and Explanation in the Biomedical Sciences. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1769-5_5
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