Southern Illinois University Press, 1989. — 152 p. — (Medical Humanities Series). — ISBN10: 0809315025; ISBN13: 978-0809315024. Anderson provides the context from which Selzer’s writing grows and a concept of language adequate to his purposes and accomplishments. He takes a careful look at Selzer’s writing to demonstrate that these abstract considerations do tell us why a...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 285 p. Will ever-more sensitive screening tests for cancer lead to longer, better lives? Will anticipating and trying to prevent the future complications of chronic disease lead to better health? Not always, says Robert Aronowitz in Risky Medicine. In fact, it often is hurting us. Exploring the transformation of health care over the...
CRC Press, 2016. — 162 p. Treating disease can be considered a combat between curative therapies and pathological afflictions. As such, the action of achieving a cure can be likened to successfully waging war on sickness and bodily disorders. Surgical Philosophy applies the core principles derived from Sun Tzu’s timeless book Art of War to combating disease through surgery. Its...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 171 p. Understanding Human Behavior The need to understand human behavior What is behavior? Well-being and the consequences of behavior The impact of social inequality and social hierarchy on behavior How cultural context affects behavior Social group identity, status inequality, and behavior Motivation as a key mediator of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 605 p. — ISBN: 978-1-137-55247-1 This book explores the growing intellectual interest in the politics of immunity. It argues that taking an ‘immunitary perspective’ is necessary if we are to better appreciate the body as a site of politics in the contemporary age. It explores the dynamic tensions between community and immunity, belonging and...
Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. — 287 p. This is the first book that analyzes and systematizes all the general ideas of medicine, in particular the philosophical ones, which are usually tacit. Instead of focusing on one or two points - typically disease and clinical trial - this book examines all the salient aspects of biomedical research and practice: the nature of disease;...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 305 p. Sickness The Person, Sick or Well Functioning What Is Healing? Listening: Te Foundation of the Healing Relationship of Patient and Clinician The Evaluation of the Patient Knowing the Patient The Patient’s Reaction to Illness The State of Illness Healing the Sick Patient Healing the Suffering Patient Respect for Persons and Autonomy...
Leiden: Brill, 2014. — 167 p. Empiricism has many different faces. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, in the 17th and 18th century demonstrate medical and philosophical empiricism is less about an "essence" and more a series of specifically modern "acts" or "gestures."
Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. — 209 p. Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. Although Wittgenstein produced little formal writing on ethics, this volume shows that, in fact, ethical issues permeate the entirety of his work. The scholars whom Carl Elliott has assembled in this volume pay particular...
Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1967. — 430 p. Prologue: By Way of Background. The Clinician's Challenge in Experimental Science. Clinical Judgment and the Experiments of Clinical Therapy. The Evolution of Clinical Investigation. Scientific Method in Clinical and Laboratory Experiments. Conceptual Barriers to Clinical Science. The Diagnostic Taxonomy of Disease: Past and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 260 p. — (Health, Technology and Society). — ISBN10: 3319532693, ISBN13: 978-3319532691. This book draws on medical sociology and science and technology studies to develop a novel conceptual framework for understanding innovation processes, using the case study of deep brain stimulation in paediatric neurology. It addresses key questions, including:...
Amsterdam: North Holland, 2011. — 599 p. This volume covers a wide range of conceptual, epistemological and methodological issues in the philosophy of science raised by reflection upon medical science and practice. Several chapters examine such general meta-scientific concepts as discovery, reduction, theories and models, causal inference and scientific realism as they apply to...
Springer, 2015. — 227 p. This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how do we distinguish diseases, i.e. define classes of diseases and recognize that an...
Springer, 2015. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-94-017-0870-9. This volume addresses some of the most prominent questions in contemporary bioethics and philosophy of medicine: ‘liberal’ eugenics, enhancement, the normal and the pathological, the classification of mental illness, the relation between genetics, disease and the political sphere, the experience of illness and disability, and...
Springer, 2018. — 435 p. — ISBN10: 9811057761, 13 978-9811057762. This volume brings together the primary challenges for 21st century cognitive sciences and cultural neuroscience in responding to the nature of human identity, self, and evolution of life itself. Through chapters devoted to intricate but focused models, empirical findings, theories, and experiential data, the...
Springer, 2018. — 497 p. — ISBN10: 9811057761, 13 978-9811057762. This volume brings together the primary challenges for 21st century cognitive sciences and cultural neuroscience in responding to the nature of human identity, self, and evolution of life itself. Through chapters devoted to intricate but focused models, empirical findings, theories, and experiential data, the...
New York: Springer, 2016. — 354 p. In this book, practicing physicians and experts in anticipation present arguments for a new understanding of medicine. Their contributions make it clear that medicine is the decisive test for anticipation. The reader is presented with a provocative hypothesis: If medicine will align itself with the anticipatory condition of life, it can prompt...
Vintage Books, 1996. — 300 p. — ISBN: 0-8129-2224-7. The answers are in this groundbreaking book by two founders of the emerging science of Darwinian medicine, who deftly synthesize the latest research on disorders ranging from allergies to Alzheimer's and from cancer to Huntington's chorea. Why We Get Sick compels readers to reexamine the age-old attitudes toward sickness....
Amsterdam: Springer Netherlands, 1984. — 264 p. On May 13-15, 1982, some 50 scientists and scholars - physicians, philos ophers and social scientists - convened at Hasselby Castle in Stockholm for the first Nordic Symposium on the Philosophy of Medicine. The topics for the symposium included (1) the concepts of health and disease, (2) classification in medicine, and (3)...
Springer, 2015. — 161 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-09882-1. Clinical practice guidelines were initially developed within the context of evidence-based medicine with the goal of putting medical research findings into practice. However, physicians do not always follow them, even when they seem to apply to the particular patient they have to treat. This phenomenon, known as clinical...
Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht, 2017. — 1126 p. — ISBN: 9401786879. This is the first wide-ranging, multi-authored handbook in the field of philosophy of medicine, covering the underlying conceptual issues of many important social, political and ethical issues in health care. It introduces and develops over 70 topics, concepts, and issues in the field. It is written...
NY, USA, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2017. — 578 p. — ISBN10: 1138846791. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine is a comprehensive guide to topics in the fields of epistemology and metaphysics of medicine. It examines traditional topics such as the concept of disease, causality in medicine, the epistemology of the randomized controlled trial, the biopsychosocial...
Picador, 2013. — 278 p. — ISBN: 9781466853560. In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often...
Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 1999. — 159 p.: illus. — ISBN: 0-262-20114-3. "Confessions of a medicine man" - a book written by an American doctor about the problems and specifics of medicine in the United States. Pick up a contemporary philosophy journal and you will see a uniform type of philosophical writing. As a rule, English-speaking philosophers write essays. Such an essay...
Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2017. — 254 p. Doctors, scientists, and patients have long grappled with the dubious nature of “certainty” in medical practice. To help navigate the chaos caused by ongoing bodily change we rely on scientific reductions and deductions. We take what we know now and make best guesses about what will be. But bodies in flux always outpace the...
London: Routledge, 2018. — 207 p. What kind of knowledge is medical knowledge? Can medicine be explained scientifically? Is disease a scientific concept, or do explanations of disease depend on values? What is "evidence-based" medicine? Are advances in neuroscience bringing us closer to a scientific understanding of the mind? The nature of medicine raises fundamental questions...
Springer, 2019. — 219 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-28625-5. This interdisciplinary volume gathers selected, refereed contributions on various aspects of public health from several disciplines and research fields, including the philosophy of science, epidemiology, statistics and ethics. The contributions were originally presented at the 1st Barcelona conference of "Philosophy of Public...
St. Martin's Press, 2017. — 227 p. — ISBN10: 1250104580. — ISBN13: 978-1250104588. There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today’s modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation about...
Springer, 2011. — 220 p. — ISBN: 9048191890. This collection of articles honors the work of Richard Zaner, a distinguished philosopher who has worked for over twenty years as an ethics consultant at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His work in the clinical setting, especially the use of narrative in understanding what is going on in this setting is the focus of some of the...
Suny Press, 2015. — 320 p. Phenomenological insights into health issues relating to bodily self-experience, normality and deviance, self-alienation, and objectification. Situated at the intersection of phenomenology of medicine and feminist phenomenology, this volume provides insights into medical practices such as surgical operations, organ transplants, dentistry, midwifery,...
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