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C D Bessinger

Publications and source records attributed to C D Bessinger.

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PubMed1992

The organic dimensions of health policy.

The health care system is a level of the larger social system, within which it must seek and find its equilibrium. This organic concept leads to a more realistic assessment of needs and goals, and can make a significant contribution in helping reshape national health policy. It also suggests a re-examination of a two-tiered approach to health benefits: a universally available level of care deemed essential for meeting social needs, and an optional coverage level directed toward meeting those individual life goals which may exceed social needs.

Delivery of Health Care↗
PubMed1990

Living ethics: homeostasis and ethical principle.

Adopting a life-systems perspective and an ethics based on the Good of systems homeostasis opens up new levels of analysis and argument as we deal with the complex questions facing the medical community today. An ethics based on our science of life systems is satisfactory philosophically in that it corresponds to our understanding of biological "truth" and clinically in that it is understandable and communicable in physiological terms.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1988

Doctoring: the philosophic milieu.

To understand fully a physician's role in society, and to deal successfully with the current sense of crisis, the medical profession must evolve a world-view that appropriately relates a physician to the patient, to the practice environment, to the base of knowledge, and to the physician's own sense of self. Such a world-view would be multilevel and interdisciplinary, and would be based on interactions and adaptations of physicians to life systems. Medicine's world-view must provide a philosophic milieu intérieur that leads to a proper equilibrium between medicine's technologic skills and its humanistic concerns.

Adaptation, Psychological↗