觀全人健康觀

A View of Holistic Health

本文並不討論如何實踐全人健康，而是儘可能地拉開距離來「觀」。首先回顧「全人」、「健康」詞彙在歷史上的用例，呈現「健康概念」的演進；並針對世界衛生組織的健康定義──「肉體、精神及社會福祉上的完全良好狀態」，特別是社會福祉上的健康進行檢討。藉著鳥瞰醫療化社會所出現的症狀，反省「全人健康」的實踐可能性。

Rather than discuss how to conduct holistic health, this article seeks to view holistic health from a distance. First of all, it looks back at examples of the terms, “holistic,” and, “health,” that appear in history, and shows the evolution of the “health concept.” Secondly, it focuses on the WHO’s definition of health – “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being” paying special attention to social wellbeing. By observing the symptoms of the medicalized society, it considers the possibility of conducting holistic health.