The philosophy of medicine : framing the field /
As interest in the medical humanities developed in medical education, an area of research and scholarship took shape: the philosophy of medicine. This collection of essays lays out a range of concerns from the philosophy of embodiment, to concepts of disease, equity and the meaning of history.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic,
[2000]
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| Series: | Philosophy and medicine ;
v. 64. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- The philosophy of medicine and bioethics: an introduction to the framing of a field
- Bodies of knowledge, philosophical anthropology, and philosophy of medicine
- Bodies, body parts, and body language: reflections on ontology and personal identity in medical practice
- Bodies and minds in the philosophy of medicine: organ sales and the lived body
- Accommodating death: euthanasia in the Netherlands
- Why should anyone listen to ethics consultants?
- Changing views of paternalism in research: AIDS activists demand change
- Three designations of disorder: diversity, disease, and determinism in psychiatric thought and practice
- Equity and the health effects of urbanization
- Engelhardt on Kant's moral foundations and Hegel's category of the State
- Bole on Kant, Hegel, and Engelhardt: a brief reply
- Epilogue: the use of the past.