Therapeutikon. 1991 Dec; 6(12): 665-8.

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Schadewaldt H.

There have always been crisis in medicine since the existence of an independent healing art. Today the rise of new ideas as the holistic medicine, alternative healing procedures and social conditioned diseases doctrines seem to suggest a new crisis. The relation of health and illness and its valuation is always the focus of attention. Individual therapy and social caused health prophylaxis are the two antithesis. But too the opinion of the medical assessment and the mental attitude towards medical technology plays an important part. The two historical models of health police movements and the so-called "Medical Reform" are discussed in detail and discussions on social induced or fateful morbid symptoms are mentioned.