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Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics: A Twenty-Year Retrospective and Critical Appraisal (Philosophy and Medicine)

By Ronald A. Carson , C.R. Burns

Book information

Year
1997
ISBN
0792335457, 9780792335450, 9780306481338
LCC
R723 .P45 1997
Open Library ID
OL683280M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1942755 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
360\360
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Papers presented at a symposium on philosophy and medicine at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1974 were published in the inaugural volume of this series. To help celebrate more than 20 years of extraordinary success with the series, another symposium was convened in Galveston in 1995. The convenors asked the participants these questions: In what ways and to what ends have academic humanists and medical scientists and practitioners become serious conversation partners in recent years? How have their dialogues been shaped by prevailing social views, political philosophies, academic habits, professional mores, and public pressures? What have been the key concepts and questions of these dialogues? Have the dialogues made any appreciable intellectual or social difference? Have they improved the care of the sick? Authors respond from a variety of theoretical perspectives in the humanities. They also articulate conceptions of philosophy of medicine and bioethics from various practice experiences, and bring critical attention to aspects of the contemporary health policy.

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