This article describes three paradigms of health care that heavily influence contemporary childbirth, most particularly in the west, but increasingly around the world: the technocratic, humanistic, and holistic models of medicine. These models differ fundamentally in their definitions of the body and its relationship to the mind, and thus in the health care approaches they charter. The technocr...

During the Sassanid Empire in Persia (226-652 AD), there was a renaissance of humanistic sciences, including medicine, in the city of Gondi-Shapur. When the Islamic center of power moved to Baghdad in about 750 AD, physicians of Gondi-Shapur, including the dean of the medical school (a Nestorian Christian), gradually moved to Baghdad constructing hospitals and medical schools. Aided by the Pers...

The terms professionalism and humanism are sometimes confused as being synonymous; even more confusing, each is sometimes regarded as a component feature of the other. The author argues that, in the context of medicine, the two terms describe distinctly different, albeit intimately linked attributes of the good doctor. Professionalism denotes a way of behaving in accordance with certain normati...

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between the humanistic values of pre-service teachers of information technologies and their attitudes towards teaching profession. Moreover, the relationship between the teachers’ demographic information and their attitudes towards teaching profession and their humanistic values were also examined. The study group was composed of 218 pr...

Although modern computer is the most revolutionary and most powerful tool developed in the twenty’s century, it is almost useless for the application of this tool to the not well defined humanistic systems such as politics, law, or even the many hour-to-hour small decisions people make routinely and daily. This is in spite of the fact that the human action of the cognitive band, which is of the...

This paper argues that the traditional definition of crime is too narrow and unnecessarily constrictive of criminological work. Definitions more in accord with the objectives of a humanistic criminology must be developed. The traditional debate over the definition of crime has not been grounded within the context of the more fundamental images of crime that actually guide criminological work. B...

Palliative care is a quickly growing facet of modern medicine. While scientific advancements have broken new ground for the possibilities of end-of-life care, sensitive treatment of the patient as an individual has lagged behind and has frequently led to an unsatisfactory experience for patients, families, and the medical community at large. This essay argues that centralizing patients during t...

The Diakonie Kork Epilepsiezentrum is a non-governmental foundation with a Christian background. The Epilepsy Centre began in 1892 with the ‘Heilund Pflegeanstalt für epileptische Kinder’ committed to help children with epilepsy followed by the ‘Heilund Pflegeanstalt für Epileptische’ widening the spectrum to the care for adults with epilepsy in 1901. Thus, the beginnings of the Centre were cha...

Objective: To relate the empathy with the Theory of the Human Care, from Jean Watson, in the current context of Nursing. Methods: Theoretical and reflective essay that proposes a discussion about empathy and its relation with the theory of the human care. Results: It is presented the Clinical Caritas process and each element of care, in order to propose and discuss the connections with empathy ...