Is there any place for the word 'soul' in medical books?

Question

Does a medical graduate believe in something like 'soul' being there within a person along with ones 'body' and 'intellect'? taught so or not? Would the same person as an individual believe in such a thing?

Answer 1

"Psyche" is Greek for "soul." It is in the medical books already. A Psychiatrist is literally a "soul doctor."

Answer 2

I think so. A doctor or nurse is one that has to watch people die, and if they didn't believe in a soul, I think they would feel that most of their work might be in a vain. It's probably comforting to think that the soul lives on.

"There are many callings that society celebrates and places perhaps undue respect upon but of all of these none is more peculiar than the calling of medicine. At once a soldier of science with its fastidious demand for reason, logic, and empiricism there is, however, that character of medicine that transcends the concrete and unyielding realm of science. It is this very character that separates the clinician from the scientist and ultimately medicine itself from the other pool of noble professions. This elusive attribute finds no solace in the comforts of science. It instead embraces the mercurial, the amorphous, the intangible. While medicine must be rooted soundly in science, it must also bow the knee to the other great pillar of its majestic edifice. This pillar has been called many things - Art, Empathy, Feeling. Even the early physician-scientists grasped this duality as they realized that there was something beyond the mechanical systems of the body that, once removed, irreversibly separated the body from its life. The Greeks termed this essence the pneumos which we translate “breath” and from which we get our field of pneumatology but to the ancient Greeks far more meaning was signified by this term. Pneumos represented much more than the mere air that was exhaled and inhaled. It instead represented the soul of that person – that essence that somehow embodied their very existence and identity. So it is with medicine for without this pneumos medicine, like the human machine it serves, would be a lifeless corpse – incapable of activity and devoid of life."

Answer 3

No one in the medical world has determined or looked for the soul in the Human Body.
Biblically ;The soul is the life of the Body and the Spirit is the life of the Soul.
A zombie is one who walks around with a body and soul but is spiritually dead.

Answer 4

The Medical Books deal with the Ggross Physical Body.Soul is even beyond the Subtle Body i.e. Mind & Intellect.
Soul is the real self to be realised by serving a Seer, a Sadguru.who removes our wrong identification with Gross & Subtle Bodis and lead us to our realisation of real SeLF

Answer 5

There is no soul as per medical ethics. As individual every body has the liberty as to their brought up to believe regarding the soul

Answer 6

Faith is a very strong emotion. Many experienced doctors will tell you something along the lines of this thought:

If your patient believes they will die or that they have 'no chance' at surviving, don't be surprised if they don't. Anything, laughter, will to live and faith in a greater being alike, will most certainly help a patient survive.

Choice of religion is irrelevant. That you have faith and believe completely in something... anything... is what matters.

Answer 7

I think there was an R&B singer in the 70s named "Dr. Soul." Does that help?

I hear he was later prosecuted for practicing extreme funkiness without a license.

Answer 8

Not a soul as religionists conceive of it. That is supernatural and outwith the scope of the medical profession.

Answer 9

Technically no. Because medical stuff is based on science and scientists only believe in what they can see, touch and study. And you can't do that with a soul.
Scientists aren't the smartest of creatures although we say they are.