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.

Bibliographic Details
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Other Authors: Engelhardt, H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), Jr., 1941-2018
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [2000]
Series:Philosophy and medicine ; v. 64.
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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.