Health Concept Quotes

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Disease is a disturbed condition, not a thing or entity.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.

Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

When you look at the growth of the human economy and its expected growth in the twenty-first century, I expect health will be the most important market of all. Especially as we move from a concept of health which focuses on healing the sick to a concept of upgrading the healthy.