바이쯔젝커(Viktor von Weizsäcker)의 의학적 인간학

The main purpose of this thesis on medical anthropology by Viktor von Weizsäcker is to evoke physicians what the true medicine for the patient care is, and why the physician should take into account the ‘personalism’, especially philosophical anthropology and ethics.

Viktor von Weizsäcker, the founder of the medical anthropology had criticized the mechanism and the depersonalization of the contemporaiy school medicine . He had introduced to the medicine the meaning of the subject-problem, the ‘Gestaltkreis’ theory and pathosophy to solve those problems. Patient is not a tool but a person. Medicine is not only a natural science, but a synthetical interdisciplinary science, especially to take a holistic approach. Physicians should respect to the personal life history of patients and should understand fully the patients through the intimate dialogues(communications).

I think, physicians could be made better by attending to what is important and worthwhile in medicine, namely medical anthropology. An emphasis on medical anthropology and person values(Personwert) could enhance the physician-patient relationship and also result in a more satisfying practice for exemplary physicians. Medical anthropology can thus enrich the practice of medicine by reminding us of our basic commitments for physicians.