Humanistic Medicine in a Modern Age

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Abstract
One does not have to be a pessimist or an incurable victim of nostalgia to agree that modern medicine in the Western world is undergoing some form of crisis. One indication of the depth of the crisis is the attention with which thoughtful people are willing to consider seriously almost any criticism of physicians and of the medical establishment — even such absurd critiques as those of Illich,1 who would have us believe that modern medicine is almost the reincarnation of the Devil himself. Similarly, the proliferation of health cults even within educated and otherwise sophisticated circles bears witness to . . .

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