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Tähkä argues that health care is compromised by an effort to be "scientific" that is actually based on superstition. The attempt to reduce illness to a single "objective" etiological factor, which is then treated as if it were independent of the patient, is neither helpful nor scientific. He emphasizes the need for a psychosocial frame of reference in all health care.