Quo Vadis Medical Healing

Part I. Philosophical and Ethical Foundations

1. How Political Is the Future of Health Care? Allocating Scarce Resources in Liberal Democracy
Annette Schulz-Baldes

2. The Concept of Disease and Medical Action — A Reciprocal Relationship and Its Relevance to Modern Medicine
Thomas Heinemann

Part II. Concepts of Healing in History

3. Medicine Between Natural Philosophy and Physician's Practice: A Debate Around 400 BC
Oliver Primavesi

4. Roman Pain and the Rise of Christianity
Susanna Elm

5. A Perfect Healing to All Our Wounds: Religion and Medicine in Judaism
John Efron

6. How Chinese Is ‘Chinese Medicine’?
Paul U. Unschuld

7. Medicus Curat, Natura Sanat in Homeopathy
Claudia Witt

8. Healing In Acute Medical Therapy: Opportunities and Limitations
Stefan N. Willich

Part IV. Acute Health Care and Social Medicine

9. The Historical Development of Social Medicine as a Responsibility of the Physician
Dieter Koch-Weser

Part V. Business Concepts

10. Unmet Medical Needs and the Role of Pharmaceutical Companies
Wolfgang Meyer-Sabellek

11. A Revolution in Research and Development — The Impact of Biotechnology
Herbert Schuster

Part VI. New Approaches in Medicine and Their Constitutional Ramification

12. Healing By Gene Therapy — Hype or Hope?
Martin Paul

13. Biotechnology and the Guarantee of Human Dignity
Martin Nettesheim

Nyckelord: MEDICAL / Public Health MED078000