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Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
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2010
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vol. 46
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issue 2
303-311
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Contemporary health sciences cooperate with psychology aiming at understanding illness. One of the branches of psychological discipline, which is very important to this aim, is the health psychology. The Multidimensional Essence of Disease and Illness Scale (MEDIS), designed by J. Sak, refers to the methodology of health psychology. The MEDIS scale factors describe: self realisation constraints, mental dysfunction, physical dysfunction, infection and social withdrawal. The scale includes 28 items about 'to be ill'.
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Dr Charles Percy Snow pointed to dichotomy of style of scientific thought in Western culture in a paper entitled 'The Two Cultures' (1959). This dichotomy has been overcome by the biopsychosocial approach in contemporary medicine. George Engel, practicing physician, published a paper in the journal 'Science' (1977) entitled 'The Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for Biomedicine'. Engel's vision of creating a unified scientific model that would account for both physical and psychological processes has been extended into the interpersonal, social and environmental spheres. ,
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Defining the general category of illness implies certain assumptions in three research plains: philosophical anthropology, epistemology, and axiology. These plains constitute three theoretical dimensions of comprehending illness. The article makes an attempt to determine anthropological bases of the category of illness. It aims at answering the question if explaining of the category of illness, based exclusively on biological norms, is justified in philosophy and medicine. In attempts to answer the question posed in the title of the paper, there are useful both, contemporary disputes about the nature of mental illness, and the personalistic theory of human being.
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