Bernard Lonergan's Method and a Medical Doctor's Approach to Healthcare

Download or read book Bernard Lonergan's Method and a Medical Doctor's Approach to Healthcare written by John Raymaker and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pat Daly, MD, has written a series of articles which uphold Bernard Lonergan's method explored in his famous book Insight as a model that could be followed or applied in practicing medicine or promoting healthcare. Daly calls his effort a GEM Model for medicine. Daly, however, has not explored in-depth Lonergan's second major work, Method in Theology, which develops an eight-step method that complements Insight. This book focuses on these eight steps, or Functional Specialties so as to better promote Lonergan's views on "Healing and Creating in History."