Relaţia dintre trup şi sufl et: valoare sacră sau simplu subiect medical?

Abstract

Unfortunately, in the medical world, the sick person is treated most of the times just somatically. For the doctor he is nothing but a sick organ: a hand, a leg, a heart, a liver; at other times, the sick person is perceived just as the disease or as a simple medical case: peritonitis, hepatitis, embolism, tumor.
The dichotomous structure of man, confirmed by the human being, highlighted so obviously by the difference between a living person and a dead body proposes the necessity of an integral medical act. The doctor must treats his patient both body and soul. From this perspective, the medical act acquires almost sacred connotations, while in the medical world the renowned doctors and reference names are those who, besides science, they have faith and interact spiritually with the sick person. Together with surgical or allopathic therapy, the patient also receives spiritual therapy from prayers, fasting, holy Sacraments and liturgies.