ABSTRACT

In this chapter, we propose images that present world views that remedy the one-sidedness of the dominating ideologies of naturalism, scientism, and market thinking. They produce alternative approaches that may recover the soul in present-day discourses and practices of healthcare. Not all of these images are new. Due to the progress of science and medicine some have been repressed, others have been neglected or discarded as irrelevant. They are all reactivated nowadays as sources of inspiration to reexamine the core of healthcare.