Downie R S
Glasgow University.
J Med Ethics. 1991 Jun;17(2):93-6, 98. doi: 10.1136/jme.17.2.93.
There are various ways in which medicine and literature interact, but this paper concentrates on the contribution which literature can make to 'whole person understanding'. Scientific understanding is concerned with seeing events and actions in terms of patterns or similarities. But 'whole person understanding' is concerned with uniqueness or with what it is for a given person to have an illness. Literature can in various ways develop this kind of understanding.
医学与文学相互作用的方式多种多样,但本文专注于文学对“全人理解”所能做出的贡献。科学理解关注的是从模式或相似性的角度看待事件和行为。而“全人理解”关注的是独特性,或者说是特定个体患病意味着什么。文学可以通过多种方式培养这种理解。