26th Jun, 2022
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Asked 11th Jul, 2019
What is theoretical Medicine?
Why cant there be a journal dedicated to the field of medicine which does not yet have any experimental basis much like theoretical medicine?
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Dear @Muneeb Faiq , if the goal of medicine is to solve longstanding problems in the field just as the goal of physicists such as Max Planck was the solution of problems which Einstein's theoretical papers of 1905 helped them solve, then no special journal is required for the field that solves such problems.
Annalen Physik, the journal that published Einstein's 1905 papers was not a journal dedicated to publishing theoretical papers. So every journal of medicine should publish theoretical papers which will move medicine forward.
We should not refer to a field of medicine which does not yet have any experimental basis as theoretical medicine. It is medicine that lacks experimental basis without such medicine that is the equivalent of the theoretical physics of Einstein, which is the only one that can be justifiably referred to as theoretical medicine. After all, it is this theoretical medicine that has the capacity to give experimental basis to concepts such as "disease" and "immunity" on which the premises that are basic to experimentation in medicine rest.
Such is the importance of theoretical medicine.
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Actually, there are two (2) journal with Theoretical Medicine in the title:
1. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics,
Springer; and
2. Journal of Theoretical Medicine, Taylor and Francis.
Dennis
Medicine is the complex of knowledge and practical activities by which we defend health and fight disease. Theoretical medicine is the set of reflections on this complex. Theoretical medicine is important in this historical period, because currently doctors must reconsider their action, their roles and their responsibilities towards both patients and society. Creative thinking is needed.The humanistic basis of medicine stems from philosophy. In my opinion medicine and philosophy must collaborate to assure a correct comprehension of the phenomenon of illness and disease, of medical reasoning, of therapeutic relationship, of medical ethics.
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Theoretical medicine should be used to develop a perspectival, context-fair, and multidimensional science of actions which integrates both diversity and heterogeneity within medicine without eliminating either one.
Such a theory should employ diversity in the following areas: (1) in systems, subsystems, and professions, because different medical professions embody different health-care subsystems, thereby influencing the way manpower is utilized, (2) in actors, (e.g., patients, health-care experts, and society), processes, and situations, because each actor potentially conceptualizes health, illness, and desired outcomes differently; and (3) in models of medicine (i.e., as an object science versus an action science).
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Dear @Muneeb Faiq , if the goal of medicine is to solve longstanding problems in the field just as the goal of physicists such as Max Planck was the solution of problems which Einstein's theoretical papers of 1905 helped them solve, then no special journal is required for the field that solves such problems.
Annalen Physik, the journal that published Einstein's 1905 papers was not a journal dedicated to publishing theoretical papers. So every journal of medicine should publish theoretical papers which will move medicine forward.
We should not refer to a field of medicine which does not yet have any experimental basis as theoretical medicine. It is medicine that lacks experimental basis without such medicine that is the equivalent of the theoretical physics of Einstein, which is the only one that can be justifiably referred to as theoretical medicine. After all, it is this theoretical medicine that has the capacity to give experimental basis to concepts such as "disease" and "immunity" on which the premises that are basic to experimentation in medicine rest.
Such is the importance of theoretical medicine.
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