To the Editor: Van Der Weyden has asked a provocative question about the relevance of what he calls "medicine's homage to health".1 In so doing, he pays his own homage to a world where boundaries are sharp and healing becomes reduced to a matter of applying "bioscience to matters of mind and body".
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Correspondence:
- 1. Van Der Weyden MB. The boundaries of medicine [From the editor's desk]. Med J Aust 2002; 177: 465.<eMJA full text>
- 2. Crookshank F. The theory of diagnosis. Lancet 1926; 2: 939.
- 3. McWhinney IR. A textbook of family medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989: 113.
- 4. White K. The task of medicine. Dialogue at Wickenberg. Menlo Park, Cal.: The Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation, 1988: 6.
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