Health Policy and Management (보건행정학회지)
- Volume 10 Issue 1
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- Pages.31-56
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- 2000
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- 1225-4266(pISSN)
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- 2289-0149(eISSN)
The impact of Rene Descartes′s Mind-Body Theory on Medicin
데카르트의 심신론이 의학에 미친 영향
Abstract
A purpose of this study is to study on Rene Descartes's mind-body theory in medical aspect. Though Rene Descartes was not so much a doctor as a philosopher, he had health and medical science at heart. When he came into the world in 1596, he was in poor health. Therefore, he suffered from his bad health. Descartes's ideas absolutely colored Western thought for three hundred years, especially, his mind-body theory, mechanistic life-view, and reductionism had important effect on medical study and science of public health. As a rule, we know that his mind-body theory was applicable to mind-body dualism, and his mind-body dualism was connected with biomedical model of medicine. But by this study, his mind-body theory was not only mind-body dualism but also mind-body monoism. And he asserted mind-body interaction too. In other words, he advocated mind-body dualism in scientific aspect, but he knew mind-body monoism from his experence. He confessed this fact to Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia, he wrote mind-body interaction in
Keywords
- mind-body theory;
- mechanistic life-view;
- reductionism;
- mind-body dualism;
- biomedical model;
- mind-body monoism;
- mind-body interaction;
- holistic understanding;
- ontological concept;
- philosophic basis of medical science