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George Libman Engel (December 10, 1913 – November 26, 1999) was an American internist and psychiatrist. He spent most of his career at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. He is best known for his formulation of the biopsychosocial model, a general theory of illness and healing.
George Engel (April 15, 1836 – November 11, 1887) was a labor union activist executed after the Haymarket riot, along with Albert Parsons, August Spies, and Adolph Fischer. Early life. Engel was born to an impoverished family with three other children. His father, Konrad, a mason and bricklayer, died when he was one year old.
George Engel’s most enduring contribution was to broaden the scope of the clinician’s gaze. His bio-psychosocial model was a call to change our way of understanding the patient and to expand the domain of medical knowledge to address the needs of each patient. It is perhaps the transformation of the way illness, suffering, and healing are ...
21 Jul 2017 · Concerned by difficulties he saw facing psychiatry in the 1970s and in particular the lack of an accepted model of illness to support and guide its practice, George Engel published a landmark paper in Science in 1977 warning ‘of a crisis in the biomedical paradigm’. Engel 1 suggested that psychiatry should adopt the biopsychosocial model of illness, which he had distilled from strands of ...
29 Mac 2019 · The first chapter outlines George Engel’s proposal of a new biopsychosocial model for medicine and healthcare in papers 40 years ago and reviews its current status. The model is popular and much invoked in clinical and health education settings and has claim to be the overarching framework for contemporary healthcare. On the other hand, the model has been increasingly criticised for being ...
