Humanizing Modern Medicine An Introductory Philosophy of Medicine /
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, a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2008.
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| Series: | Philosophy and Medicine ;
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Metaphysics
- Medical Worldviews
- Medical Causation and Realism
- Patient as Body or Person
- Disease or Illness and Health or Wellbeing
- Diagnosis and Therapeutics
- Epistemology
- Medical Thinking
- Clinical Judging and Decision Making
- Medical Explanations
- Diagnostic Knowledge
- Therapeutic Knowledge
- Ethics
- Medical Axiology and Values
- Origins of Bioethics and Normative Ethics
- Principlism and the Future of Bioethics
- Emotionally Detached Concern or Empathic Care
- Patient-Physician Relationships.
