Metaphysics And Medicine

Author : Kenneth A. Richman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 026226434X

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Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine by Kenneth A. Richman Pdf

Explores the philosophical and practical ethical implications of a definition of health as a state that allows us to reach our goals. Definitions of health and disease are of more than theoretical interest. Understanding what it means to be healthy has implications for choices in medical treatment, for ethically sound informed consent, and for accurate assessment of policies or programs. This deeper understanding can help us create more effective public policy for health and medicine. It is notable that such contentious legal initiatives as the Americans with Disability Act and the Patients' Bill of Rights fail to define adequately the medical terms on which their effectiveness depends. In Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine, Kenneth Richman develops an "embedded instrumentalist" theory of health and applies it to practical problems in health care and medicine, addressing topics that range from the philosophy of science to knee surgery. "Embedded instrumentalist" theories hold that health is a match between one's goals and one's ability to reach those goals, and that the relevant goals may vary from individual to individual. This captures the normative implications of the term health while avoiding problematic relativism. Richman's embedded instrumentalism differs from other theories of health in drawing a distinction between the health of individuals as biological organisms and the health of individuals as moral agents. This distinction illuminates many difficulties in patient-provider communication and helps us understand conflicts between promoting health and promoting ethically permissible behavior. After exploring, expanding, and defending this theory in the first part of the book, Richman examines its ethical implications, discussing such concerns as the connection between medical beneficence and respect for autonomy, patient-provider communication, living wills, and clinical education.

Author : D O Larry Malerba,Larry, Larry Malerba
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503055795

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Metaphysics and Medicine by D O Larry Malerba,Larry, Larry Malerba Pdf

Western medicine is guided by an outdated paradigm that is badly in need of revision. This groundbreaking book argues that the failures of modern medicine are not, as we are conditioned to believe, unavoidable missteps along the road to scientific advancement. They are predictable consequences of wrong thinking, of false beliefs about disease and the healing process. Science evolves, and so should medicine. When we absorb the lessons learned from practical experience, it cannot help but change the way we think about health and healing. The solution that Dr. Malerba proposes is nothing less than a renaissance in philosophy of medicine. Intended for all readers, this is a clear and easy-to-read discussion of issues that influence the practical choices we make regarding our health in times of illness. Metaphysics & Medicine is about the philosophical and practical differences between science as it was originally conceived, science as it is construed by mainstream medicine today, the particularly disturbing modern trend called scientism, and a more authentic and inclusive form of future medical science that will no longer ignore human consciousness and the lessons learned from subjective experience. Modern medicine lacks a coherent philosophy to help make sense of the complex dynamics of illness, healing, and mind-body relationships. Most medical dysfunction can be traced to this absence of guiding principles, which, if remedied, would revolutionize the practice of medicine. Conventional medicine is based upon a distorted conception of reality that fails to incorporate human consciousness, which is the most critical determinant of health and well-being. Metaphysics & Medicine is a blueprint for a way forward that will rescue medicine from its materialistic bias and bring it into alignment with contemporary thought regarding mind-body principles and holistic theory and practice. It examines the flawed ideas behind conventional medical strategies and proposes a new philosophy of medicine that changes the way we think about science, illness, and healing.

Author : Steven E. Hodes M.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780313348402

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Meta-Physician on Call for Better Health by Steven E. Hodes M.D. Pdf

Steven E. Hodes, M.D., initially trained in traditional, high-caliber medical programs that led him through graduation at the Albert Einstein Medical School and to a fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital. But many years later, he saw something vital missing in his approach to healthcare. I was trained as a physician, not a healer...taught to view the patient as a machine suffering from some mechanical failure. My purpose was to be the best diagnostician possible, he explains. Then events occurred that opened the eyes of this now veteran physician to deep insights about the mind-body-spirit connection. That awakening moved him to a metaphysical view of health—a view more spiritual than religious, but still firmly grounded in science. Embracing his role as a metaphysician, he also began to see himself as a meta-physician, or doctor transformed (meta) by this new awareness. In this book, Hodes describes his journey to becoming a metaphysician on call. He points out profound, yet simple, observations and beliefs that affect our perception of the nature of reality—metaphysics—which, in turn, can largely affect our well-being in all senses—body, mind, and spirit. We all can and should take responsibility for our own well-being on all levels, he explains. This book is designed to inspire us to ask our own questions, and gather our own evidence to enhance all areas of our lives and well-being, and so find healing and peace.

Author : S.F. Spicker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789400997837

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Organism, Medicine, and Metaphysics by S.F. Spicker Pdf

This Festschrift is presented to Professor Hans Jonas on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, as affirmation of the contributors' respect and admiration. As a volume in the series 'Philosophy and Medicine' the contributions not only reflect certain interests and pursuits of the scholar to whom it is dedi cated, but also serve to bring to convergence the interests of the contributors in the history of humanity and medicine, the theory of organism, medicine in the service of the patient's autonomy, and the metaphysical, i.e., phenome nological foundations of medicine. Notwithstanding the nature of such personal gifts as the authors' contributions (which, with the exception of the late Hannah Arendt's, appear here for the first time), the essays also transcend the personal and serve to elaborate specific themes and theses disclosed in the numerous writings of Hans Jonas. The editor owes a personal debt of gratitude to many, including Hannah Arendt, who offered their assistance during the preparation of the volume.

Author : Harold Kincaid,Jennifer McKitrick
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781402052163

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Establishing Medical Reality by Harold Kincaid,Jennifer McKitrick Pdf

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 : James A. Marcum
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781402067976

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An Introductory Philosophy of Medicine by James A. Marcum Pdf

In this book the author explores the shifting philosophical boundaries of modern medical knowledge and practice occasioned by the crisis of quality-of-care, especially in terms of the various humanistic adjustments to the biomedical model. To that end he examines the metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical boundaries of these medical models. He begins with their metaphysics, analyzing the metaphysical positions and presuppositions and ontological commitments upon which medical knowledge and practice is founded. Next, he considers the epistemological issues that face these medical models, particularly those driven by methodological procedures undertaken by epistemic agents to constitute medical knowledge and practice. Finally, he examines the axiological boundaries and the ethical implications of each model, especially in terms of the physician-patient relationship. In a concluding Epilogue, he discusses how the philosophical analysis of the humanization of modern medicine helps to address the crisis-of-care, as well as the question of “What is medicine?” The book’s unique features include a comprehensive coverage of the various topics in the philosophy of medicine that have emerged over the past several decades and a philosophical context for embedding bioethical discussions. The book’s target audiences include both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as healthcare professionals and professional philosophers. “This book is the 99th issue of the Series Philosophy and Medicine...and it can be considered a crown of thirty years of intensive and dynamic discussion in the field. We are completely convinced that after its publication, it can be finally said that undoubtedly the philosophy of medicine exists as a special field of inquiry.”

Author : Benjamin Walker
Publisher : Routledge/Thoemms Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 0710087810

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Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine by Benjamin Walker Pdf

"Encyclopedic survey of the whole field of arcane medical theory and practice from antiquity to modern times." Covers such topics as multiple personality, etherosis, and scatotherapy. Entry gives lengthy discussion and references. Index.

Author : Peter Distelzweig,Benjamin Goldberg,Evan R. Ragland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401773539

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Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy by Peter Distelzweig,Benjamin Goldberg,Evan R. Ragland Pdf

This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments. The individual chapters chart this interrelation in a variety of contexts, from the Humanists who drew on Hippocrates, Galen, and Aristotle to answer philosophical and medical questions, to medical debates on the limits and power of mechanism, and on to eighteenth-century controversies over medical materialism and 'atheism.' The work presented here broadens our understanding of both philosophy and medicine in this period by illustrating the ways these disciplines were in deep theoretical and methodological dialogue and by demonstrating the importance of this dialogue for understanding their history. Taken together, these papers argue that to overlook the medical context of natural philosophy and the philosophical context of medicine is to overlook fundamentally important aspects of these intellectual endeavors.

Author : Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789401795791

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Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine by Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh Pdf

Medical practice is practiced morality, and clinical research belongs to normative ethics. The present book elucidates and advances this thesis by: 1. analyzing the structure of medical language, knowledge, and theories; 2. inquiring into the foundations of the clinical encounter; 3. introducing the logic and methodology of clinical decision-making, including artificial intelligence in medicine; 4. suggesting comprehensive theories of organism, life, and psyche; of health, illness, and disease; of etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, and therapy; and 5. investigating the moral and metaphysical issues central to medical practice and research. Many systems of (classical, modal, non-classical, probability, and fuzzy) logic are introduced and applied. Fuzzy medical deontics, fuzzy medical ontology, fuzzy medical concept formation, fuzzy medical decision-making and biomedicine and many other techniques of fuzzification in medicine are introduced for the first time.

Author : Jeffrey P. Bishop
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268075859

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The Anticipatory Corpse by Jeffrey P. Bishop Pdf

In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary medicine and in our social and political views of death, as shaped by our scientific successes and ongoing debates about euthanasia and the “right to die”—or to live. The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying, informed by Foucault’s genealogy of medicine and power as well as by a thorough grasp of current medical practices and medical ethics, argues that a view of people as machines in motion—people as, in effect, temporarily animated corpses with interchangeable parts—has become epistemologically normative for medicine. The dead body is subtly anticipated in our practices of exercising control over the suffering person, whether through technological mastery in the intensive care unit or through the impersonal, quasi-scientific assessments of psychological and spiritual “medicine.” The result is a kind of nihilistic attitude toward the dying, and troubling contradictions and absurdities in our practices. Wide-ranging in its examples, from organ donation rules in the United States, to ICU medicine, to “spiritual surveys,” to presidential bioethics commissions attempting to define death, and to high-profile cases such as Terri Schiavo’s, The Anticipatory Corpse explores the historical, political, and philosophical underpinnings of our care of the dying and, finally, the possibilities of change. This book is a ground-breaking work in bioethics. It will provoke thought and argument for all those engaged in medicine, philosophy, theology, and health policy.

Author : S. Kay Toombs
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401005364

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Handbook of Phenomenology and Medicine by S. Kay Toombs Pdf

Some of the authors who have contributed to this volume are philosophers, some are engaged in other academic disciplines, and several are practicing healthcare professionals. Their essays demonstrate that because phenomenology provides extraordinary insights into many of the issues that are directly addressed within the world of medicine it can be an invaluable practical tool, not only for those who are interested in the philosophy of medicine, but for all healthcare professionals who are actively engaged in the care of the sick.

Author : Ming Wong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Medicine, Chinese
ISBN : 1451277350

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Traditional Chinese Medicine and Metaphysics by Ming Wong Pdf

Author : R. J. Hankinson
Publisher : Academic Printing & Pub
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Medicine, Greek and Roman
ISBN : 0920980333

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Method, Medicine and Metaphysics by R. J. Hankinson Pdf

Author : Jenny Slatman
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048523146

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Our strange body by Jenny Slatman Pdf

The ever increasing ability of medical technology to reshape the human body in fundamental ways - from organ and tissue transplants to reconstructive surgery and prosthetics - is something now largely taken for granted. But for a philosopher, such interventions raise fundamental and fascinating questions about our sense of individual identity and its relationship to the physical body. Drawing on and engaging with philosophers from across the centuries, Jenny Slatman here develops a novel argument: that our own body always entails a strange dimension, a strangeness that enables us to incorporate radical physical changes.

Author : Henry C. Lu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1490507922

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Philosophy and Metaphysics of Traditional Chinese Medicine by Henry C. Lu Pdf

This book in Chinese medical philosophy and metaphysics provides you with access to over dozens of Chinese classics directly or indirectly related to Chinese medical philosophy and metaphysics, notably, Yi-Jing, Classics in Taoism, Classics in Confucianism, Classics in Chinese medical philosophy, etc.All key concepts contained in this book are traced back to their historical origins, and at the same time, they are also provided with modern Chinese interpretations regarding their philosophical meanings and clinical significance, notably, Qi or Energy, Yin and Yang theory, Five Elements Movements, Theory of Viscera-Bowels-Meridians, etc.The ideas and inspirations of this book are developed through the decades by way of library research and clinical experiences, notably. unique sources of information, current developments in the field of Chinese medicine, logical consistency of Chinese medical philosophy not only in clinical practice of Chinese medicine but also in other related fields of modern sciences.Original materials which are not available to Western students and practitioners of Chinese medicine in the past and at present and in the distant future, are contained in this book with the sole objective of cultivating advanced students in the field of Chinese medical philosophy and metaphysics.