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The GEM model of health: a model based on generalized empirical method –Part 3 – Fleshing out the model

Patrick Daly

Abstract


In this paper, I discuss Lonergan’s account of the structure of the human good and then demonstrate how it works in reference to a doctor’s description of her experience at a New Orleans’ hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Next, I proceed to define health and disease on the basis of Lonergan’s accounts of the human good, emergent probability and generalized empirical method. Then, I lay out the generic levels of human living in a table of terms whose interrelations embody the multiple dimensions of health and their dynamic potential for integration (and breakdown) in the GEM model of health.

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Clinical health, commodities, cultural health, disease, emergent probability, ethical value, experience, finality, GEM Model of Health, generalized empirical method, human good, human praxis, judgement, notion of health, person-centered healthcare, princi

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/ejpch.v7i3.1727

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