Engel, Engels, and the side of the angels
The LancetPublished 1 June 2005Open access
I. C. McManus
Citations16
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score12.11
SNIP22.72
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Abstract
In 1977 George Engel, a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and professor of medicine, published a paper in Science. It contained no data and, to be frank, it is rather dry read nowadays, but its 1600 citations have made it a classic. The main achievement of "The Need for a New Medical Model: a Challenge for Biomedicine", was to put one word firmly into the medical literature: biopsychosocial.
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