Philosophy of medicine : an introduction
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Philosophy of medicine : an introduction
Blackwell Scientific, 1990
2nd ed
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This is a new edition, now in paperback, of a book which is written jointly by a philosopher, physician and a psychiatrist. As medicine advances more questions arise about the "quality of life" and the distribution of scarce and costly forms of medical and surgical treatment. Doctors can no longer be content to save life and ease pain without considering the wider implications of what they are doing. This work is an introduction to this debate about values in medicine. The book is intended for doctors, nurses, medical students and philosophers.
Table of Contents
- The paradigm of medicine
- Empiricism and realism: A philosophical problem
- Empiricism and realism: Two opposing trends in medical thinking
- The mechanical model
- Causality in medicine
- The disease classification: An indispensable tool
- Probability and belief
- The naturalistic approach to psychiatry
- Hermeneutics: The nature of man in a wider perspective
- Medicine and sociology
- Psychoanalysis: Natural science or hermeneutics?
- Medical ethics as a philosophical discipline
- The ethical dimension of medical decisions
- The mind and the body.
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