Journal of Medical - Clinical Research & Reviews

Journal of Medical - Clinical Research & Reviews

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ISSN: 2639-944X
Research Article

Healing as Justice: Clinical Advocacy in Therapeutic Practice

Authors: Julian Ungar-Sargon.

DOI: 10.33425/2639-944X.1420


Abstract

This paper integrates insights from clinical narrative essays with frameworks from liberation medicine, critical medical anthropology, and restorative justice theory to propose a unified model of healing as justice. Drawing upon Paul Farmer's concept of accompaniment [1,2], Nancy Scheper-Hughes's embodied witnessing [3], and legal theories of dignity and repair [4], this study positions the physician as moral witness, narrative interpreter, and advocate for healing justice. Enhanced with insights from shame-based healing paradigms [5], Catholic social thought [6], ontological theories of suffering and healing [7], and anti-psychiatry critiques [8-10], this framework bridges personal therapeutic presence with structural analysis, offering a vision of medicine that recognizes the therapeutic encounter as a site where dignity is restored, suffering is witnessed, and justice is enacted through sacred attentiveness.

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Citation: Julian Ungar-Sargon. Healing as Justice: Clinical Advocacy in Therapeutic Practice. 2025; 9(6). DOI: 10.33425/2639-944X.1420
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Cardiac Surgery Department | Germans Trias University Hospital in Pujol

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