{"id":3649,"date":"2023-06-06T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2023-05-19T15:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:32:37","slug":"contributions-of-hippocratic-medicine-and-plato-to-todays-debate-over-health-social-determinants-and-the-authority-of-biomedicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2023\/06\/06\/contributions-of-hippocratic-medicine-and-plato-to-todays-debate-over-health-social-determinants-and-the-authority-of-biomedicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Contributions of Hippocratic Medicine and Plato to Today\u2019s Debate Over Health, Social Determinants and the Authority of Biomedicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Article Summary by Susan Levin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Though the portion of the USA\u2019s gross domestic product allocated to healthcare vastly surpasses that directed to other major areas of societal concern, outcomes for life expectancy and infant mortality are highly disappointing. By such measures, the USA also fares poorly in international comparisons. One\u2019s impression that, by giving pre-eminence to healthcare as health\u2019s protector, the USA is doing far less than it could to safeguard health is strengthened by mounting evidence that health impacts of \u2018social determinants of health\u2019 besides healthcare, such as education, are actually more salient than it. The entrenched supremacy of professional medicine as health\u2019s protector is, thus, increasingly and rightly questioned. This state of affairs offers a valuable opportunity for a shift in template for addressing health. To take advantage of this opportunity, we must appreciate that, although revisiting the question of how healthcare\u2019s relationship to health should be conceptualised is important, it is not the core question that needs posing today. My paper\u2019s investigation of Plato\u2019s competition with Hippocratic medicine for authority on health and human nature supports the view that our answer to this, fairly specific, question depends on our responses to much larger queries: \u2018What type of human good is health, and where does it reside in importance?\u2019 \u2018How should health be construed?\u2019 and \u2018What contributes importantly to health, thus construed?\u2019 Despite our and the Greeks\u2019 differing historical and cultural situations, on the deepest level, the human stakes of how we choose to answer these queries are essentially the same. The Greeks, thus, model for us a valuable methodology for approaching the topic of healthcare\u2019s fitting relationship to health. In addition, on the plane of content, exploration of Plato\u2019s engagement with Hippocratic medicine supports a contemporary shift away from a biomedical template for addressing health to a view that embeds our valuing and pursuit of health in the larger pursuit of human flourishing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Read the full article on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mh.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2022\/12\/21\/medhum-2022-012486\"><em>Medical Humanities<\/em> journal website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3650 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2023\/05\/Levin-Susan-Contributions-of-Hippocratic-medicine-Photo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait photograph of Susan Levin\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2023\/05\/Levin-Susan-Contributions-of-Hippocratic-medicine-Photo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2023\/05\/Levin-Susan-Contributions-of-Hippocratic-medicine-Photo-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2023\/05\/Levin-Susan-Contributions-of-Hippocratic-medicine-Photo-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2023\/05\/Levin-Susan-Contributions-of-Hippocratic-medicine-Photo.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Susan B. Levin is Roe\/Straut Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. In addition to numerous articles in both bioethics and ancient Greek philosophy, she has published <\/em>Posthuman Bliss? The Failed Promise of Transhumanism<em> (Oxford, 2021), <\/em>Plato\u2019s Rivalry with Medicine: A Struggle and Its Dissolution<em>(Oxford, 2014), and <\/em>The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry Revisited: Plato and the Greek Literary Tradition<em> (Oxford, 2001).<\/em><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Summary by Susan Levin Though the portion of the USA\u2019s gross domestic product allocated to healthcare vastly surpasses that directed to other major areas of societal concern, outcomes for life expectancy and infant mortality are highly disappointing. By such measures, the USA also fares poorly in international comparisons. 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