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Author : George MARTINE (M.D., of St. Andrews.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1740
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024251192
Author : Havi Carel,Rachel Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317544869
What counts as health or ill health? How do we deal with the fallibility of our own bodies? Should illness and disease be considered simply in biological terms, or should considerations of its emotional impact dictate our treatment of it? Our understanding of health and illness had become increasingly more complex in the modern world, as we are able to use medicine not only to fight disease but to control other aspects of our bodies, whether mood, blood pressure, or cholesterol. This collection of essays foregrounds the concepts of health and illness and patient experience within the philosophy of medicine, reflecting on the relationship between the ill person and society. Mental illness is considered alongside physical disease, and the important ramifications of society's differentiation between the two are brought to light. Health, Illness and Disease is a significant contribution to shaping the parameters of the evolving field of philosophy of medicine and will be of interest to medical practitioners and policy-makers as well as philosophers of science and ethicists.
Author : Philippe Huneman,Gérard Lambert,Marc Silberstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401788878
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 instance X of disease belongs to a given class B? (d) How do we assess and choose cure/ therapy? The book is divided into three sections: classification, disease and evidence. In general, attention is focused on statistics in medicine and epidemiology, issues in psychiatry and connecting medicine with evolutionary biology and genetics. Many authors position the theories that they address within their historical contexts. The nature of health and disease will be addressed in several essays that also touch upon very general questions about the definition of medicine and its status. Several chapters scrutinize classification because of its centrality within philosophical problems raised by medicine and its core position in the philosophical questioning of psychiatry. Specificities of medical explanation have recently come under a new light, particularly because of the rise of statistical methods and several chapters investigate these methods in specific contexts such as epidemiology or meta-analysis of random testing. Taken together this collection addresses the question of how we gather, use and assess evidence for various medical theories. The rich assortment of disciplines featured also includes epidemiology, parasitology and public health, while technical aspects such as the application of game theory to medical research and the misuse of the DSM in forensic psychiatry are also given an airing. The book addresses more than the construction of medical knowledge, however, adding cogent appraisal of the processes of decision making in medicine and the protocols used to justify therapeutic choices.
Author : L.Y Nordenfelt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9401593620
This book is a contribution to the general philosophy of action and the philosophy of welfare. The author makes separate analyses of concepts such as action, ability, interaction, action-explanation, happiness, health, illness and disability. At the same time he explores and substantiates the idea of a strong interdependence between the concept of action and some of the central concepts of welfare, in particular health and illness and related concepts.
Author : Elisha Bartlett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Medicine
ISBN : PRNC:32101015923368
In two parts in one volume: "Philosophy of physical science" and "Philosophy of medical science". Bartlett "argued that the observation of facts was the sole path to medical enlightenment, and the only legitimate manipulations of facts were classification and generalization based on numerical analysis."--Dictionary of American biography, v.1, p.40.
Author : Leah McClimans
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783488490
This volume introduces readers to the main philosophical issues of measurement in medicine, illustrating the connections between the natural and social sciences by integrating essays on causation, measuring instruments and issues of measurement and policy.
Author : John L. E. W. Shecut
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0282618880
Excerpt from Shecut's Medical and Philosophical Essays During the prevalence of the Yellow Fever of 1817, I discovered, that operation: on my electrical machine, varied with the rise, progre of the Fever: that when the Fever first appeared in the city that summer, and indeed for some time previous to its occurrence, the electric powers of the machine had began evidently to decline; that when the Fever raged with its utmost violence and fatality, sparks were not to he elicited, the fluid was almost totally inert; but as soon as the disease began to decline, a visible change also took place in the effects 'of the machine, from which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Harold Kincaid,Jennifer McKitrick
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781402052163
Medicine raises numerous philosophical issues. This volume approaches the philosophy of medicine from the broad naturalist perspective. This holds that philosophy must be continuous with, constrained by, and relevant to empirical results of the natural and social sciences. The upshot is a unique volume that ties medicine to contemporary issues in philosophy of science and metaphysics.
Author : Thomas Percival
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1789
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCM:5327141074
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1740
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1125881289
Author : David Macbride
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Digestion
ISBN : UCM:5325107718
Author : L.Y Nordenfelt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789401593618
This book is a contribution to the general philosophy of action and the philosophy of welfare. The author makes separate analyses of concepts such as action, ability, interaction, action-explanation, happiness, health, illness and disability. At the same time he explores and substantiates the idea of a strong interdependence between the concept of action and some of the central concepts of welfare, in particular health and illness and related concepts.
Author : Kevin Aho
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786604842
Existential Medicine explores the recent impact that the philosophies of existentialism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics have had on the health care professions. A growing body of scholarship drawing primarily on the work of Martin Heidegger and other influential twentieth-century figures such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Hans-Georg Gadamer has shaped contemporary research in the fields of bioethics, narrative medicine, gerontology, enhancement medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy, and palliative care, among others. By regarding the human body as a decontextualized object, the prevailing paradigm of medical science often overlooks the body as it is lived. As a result, it fails to critically engage the experience of illness and the core questions of ‘what it means’ and ‘what it feels like’ to be ill. With work from emerging and renowned scholars in the field, this collection aims to shed light on these issues and the crucial need for clinicians to situate the experience of illness within the context of a patient’s life-world. To this end, Existential Medicine offers a valuable resource for philosophers and medical humanists as well as health care practitioners.
Author : Alfred I. Tauber
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biomedical engineering
ISBN : 0262700727
This book probes the ethical structure of contemporary medicine in an argument accessible to lay readers, healthcare professionals, and ethicists alike.
Author : Michael Frede
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780816612758
This text contains seventeen papers written by the author over the course of the last twelve years on the topic of philosophy.
