Science in medicine has become master instead of servant. We have viewed health and illness as an alien something that leaps upon our backs in the dark and fastens to our flesh. This model of sickness suggests that all that is needed is to peel the monster off of our outside. We can leave what we are inside, in our spirit, alone. Indeed, there is plenty of therapy which fits that model quite well. Yet, illness is more often substantially subjective.
Excerpt from "Pharmacy and Medical Interventions"
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