Gold Humanism Honor Society presents

1. Gold Nuggets Gold Humanism Honor Societypresents Benjamin.Mati@jefferson.edu

2. Gold Humanism Honor Society • Humanismand professionalism in medicine • Recognize • Support • Promote Benjamin.Mati@jefferson.edu

3. Humanism Humanism • Integrity • Congruence between expressed values & behavior • Excellence • Clinical expertise • Compassion • Acknowledgement of another’s suffering & desire to relieve it • Altruism • Capacity to put needs & interests of another before one’s own • Respect • Regard for autonomy & values of another person • Empathy • Ability to put oneself in another's situation • Service • Giving beyond what is required Benjamin.Mati@jefferson.edu

4. She Blinded Me With Science: OrContextualizing Biomedical Reductionism • Contextualization • Biomedicine • Reductionism Benjamin.Mati@jefferson.edu

5. No Man [/Woman] is an Island No Man is an Island • Culture • Systems of ideas, beliefs, values, symbols • Learned patterns of thought and behavior • Defines reality • “Health” “healing” “medicine” “disease” • Medical systems help guide “sick” and “healthy” Benjamin.Mati@jefferson.edu

6. Ethnomedicine • Biomedicine • Science • Technology • “Objectivism” • Empiricism • Individualism • MapucheMedicine • Self as microcosm • Machi’s power • Health as activism Benjamin.Mati@jefferson.edu

7. Cogito ergo sum Benjamin.Mati@jefferson.edu

8. Reductionism • Find the basic units • Understand the whole through its parts Benjamin.Mati@jefferson.edu

9. Contextualizing Biomedical Reductionism • Illness vs. disease • Science= Facts • Beliefs= Truths • Biomedicine: A science-using practice • Physician: A science-using humanist Benjamin.Mati@jefferson.edu

10. Humanism • Integrity • Excellence • Compassion • Altruism • Respect • Empathy • Service Benjamin.Mati@jefferson.edu

11. Benjamin.Mati@jefferson.edu