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The Philosophy of Medicine: Framing the Field (Philosophy and Medicine)

By H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

Book information

Year
2000
ISBN
0792362233, 9780792362234, 9780306474750
Open Library ID
OL11152318M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
823 kB (842781 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
250\263
Topic
Medicine
Time added
2011-06-05 16:23:19

Description

The term `bioethics' was coined in 1971, just as interest in the medical humanities claimed a prominent place in medical education. Out of this interest, a substantial area of research and scholarship took shape: the philosophy of medicine. This field has been directed to the epistemological, ontological, and value-theoretical issues occasioned by medicine and the biomedical sciences. Bioethics is nested in this field and can only be fully understood in terms of the foundational issues it addresses. This collection of essays in honor of Stuart F. Spicker, one of the individuals who gave shape to the philosophy of medicine, lays out the broad scope of concerns from the philosophy of embodiment, to issues of the role of ethics consultants, to concepts of disease, equity and the meaning of history.

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