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The GEM Model: A model of health based on generalized empirical method – Part 1 – Introduction

Patrick Daly

Abstract


This is the first of a four-part essay in which I present a comprehensive model of health based on the philosophy of Bernard Lonergan.  In this introductory article, I situate the model within my overall project to develop a philosophy of health based on Lonergan’s philosophy and within contemporary efforts to understand the relationship between health science and healthcare. In the following set of three articles I discuss the philosophical background of the model before fleshing the model out and then comparing it to other accounts of health and disease.

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Biopsychosocial medicine, emergent probability, generalized empirical method, health, healthcare, health science, human good, humanities, model, models of health, patient-centered clinical method, person-centered healthcare, philosophy of health, technosc

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/ejpch.v7i3.1725

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