On a Medicine of the Whole Person: away from scientistic reductionism and towards the embrace of the complex in clinical practice†

  1. Andrew Miles MSc MPhil PhD

Article first published online: 23 DEC 2009

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01354.x

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Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volume 15, Issue 6, pages 941–949, December 2009

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Miles, A. (2009), On a Medicine of the Whole Person: away from scientistic reductionism and towards the embrace of the complex in clinical practice. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 15: 941–949. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01354.x

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  1. Professor of Public Health Education and Policy, Associate Dean of Medicine, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, National Director, UK Key Advances in Clinical Practice Series, Medical School at the University of Buckingham (London Campus), London, UK

*Professor Andrew Miles Professorial Unit for Public Health Education and Policy P. O. Box 64457 London SE11 9AN UK E-mail: andrew.miles@buckingham.ac.uk

  • †

    Based on a lecture delivered by the author to the First Morgagni Lectures on ‘The Light and Shade of Evidence-based Medicine’ of the Istituto Superiore di Sanita at the Università La Sapienza in Rome on 20 October 2008.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 23 DEC 2009
  2. Article first published online: 23 DEC 2009
  3. Accepted for publication: 10 November 2009

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Keywords:

  • art and science of medicine;
  • biomedicalism;
  • biomedical paradigm;
  • clinical judgement;
  • complexity;
  • evidence-based medicine;
  • faith;
  • intuition;
  • medicine;
  • medicine of the whole person;
  • misrepresentation;
  • personalized medicine;
  • phronesis;
  • positivism;
  • rationality;
  • reductionism;
  • religious care;
  • science;
  • scientism;
  • spiritual care;
  • spirituality;
  • the consultation;
  • uncertainty;
  • values
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