Patients and agents – or why we need a different narrative: a philosophical analysis

Abstract Background The success of medicine in the treatment of patients brings with it new challenges. More people live on to suffer from functional, chronic or multifactorial diseases, and this has led to calls for more complex analyses of the causal determinants of health and illness. Methods Phi...

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Main Authors: Harald Walach, Michael Loughlin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-10-01
Series:Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13010-018-0068-x