Health Humanities in Medicina: The Auxiliary Stance

Olaf Dammann^{1

2

3}, Signe Mežinska⁴, Eugenijus Gefenas⁵

Affiliations

¹ Deptartment of Public Health & Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
² Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Hannover Medical School, D-30635 Hannover, Germany.
³ Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine, University of Latvia, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia.
⁵ Center for Health Ethics, Law and History, Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, LT-03101 Vilnius, Lithuania.

Editorial

Olaf Dammann et al. Medicina (Kaunas). 2022.

. 2022 Mar 10;58(3):411.

doi: 10.3390/medicina58030411.

Olaf Dammann^{1

2

3}, Signe Mežinska⁴, Eugenijus Gefenas⁵

¹ Deptartment of Public Health & Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
² Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Hannover Medical School, D-30635 Hannover, Germany.
³ Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine, University of Latvia, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia.
⁵ Center for Health Ethics, Law and History, Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, LT-03101 Vilnius, Lithuania.

Abstract

At the core of medicine is the idea to help fellow human beings by improving or even restoring their health [...].

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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