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The GEM model of health: a model based on generalized empirical method –Part 3 – Fleshing out the model

In this paper, I discuss Lonergan’s account of the structure of the human good and then demonstrate how it works in reference to a doctor’s description of her experience at a New Orleans’ hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Next, I proceed to define health and disease on the basis of Lonergan’s accounts of the human good, emergent probability and generalized empirical method. Then, I lay out the generic levels of human living in a table of terms whose interrelations embody the multiple dimensions of health and their dynamic potential for integration (and breakdown) in the GEM model of health.

European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare

Oct 5, 2019

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The GEM Model: A model of health based on generalized empirical method – Part 1 – Introduction

This is the first of a four-part essay in which I present a comprehensive model of health based on the philosophy of Bernard Lonergan. In this introductory article, I situate the model within my overall project to develop a philosophy of health based on Lonergan’s philosophy and within contemporary efforts to understand the relationship between health science and healthcare. In the following set of three articles I discuss the philosophical background of the model before fleshing the model out and then comparing it to other accounts of health and disease.