The Patient

Abstract

Medicine is concerned with the treatment of sick people, the promotion and protection of health, and the prevention of maladies and human suffering. This wide-ranging task is accomplished through medical practice and medical research, though no sharp boundary between them can be drawn. For the purposes of our discussion in the present Part II, we shall focus on medical practicemedicalpractice. The term “practice” derives from the Greek word πραξις (praxis) praxis that means “doing ”, “acting ”, and “action ”. Thus, by the term “medical praxiologymedicalpraxiology ” we understand the theory of medical practice theory ofmedical practice, i.e., the philosophy, methodology, and logic of medical doing and acting praxiology (Sadegh-Zadeh, 1981d, 183) Sadegh-Zadeh, K.