50 Years of Philosophy and Medicine

Søren Holm holds degrees in Medicine and in Philosophy and Religious Studies as well as a PhD and a Dr.Med from the University of Copenhagen. He is currently a Professor of Bioethics at the University of Manchester and and Professor of Medical Ethics (part-time) at the University of Oslo. He served with Professor John Harris as co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics; was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2006 to 2012, and currently serves as Co-Editor in Chief of the Philosophy and Medicine book series.  Lisa M. Rasmussen earned her PhD in Philosophy from Rice University; and is currently Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. One of Dr. Rasmussen’s main research areas is research ethics, particularly research misconduct and federal regulatory approaches to ethical issues in research. She is presently working on a book manuscript on unregulated human subject research, and serves as co-Editor in Chief  of the book series Philosophy and Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Accountability in Research.

• 1. Fifty Years of the Philosophy and Medicine Book Series.- Part I. Philosophy of Medicine.- 2. On the Concepts of Health and Disease.- 3. The Concepts of Health and Disease.- 4. Tracing Philosophy and Medicine Roots:  A Focus on Philosophy of Disease.- 5. Phenomenology of Health and Illness in the American-English Tradition.- 6. Does the philosophy of medicine exist – a reappraisal.- Part II. The Subseries of Philosophy and Medicine.- 7. Volumes on the History of Medical Ethics in the Philosophy and Medicine Series.- 8. The Catholic Studies in Bioethics Subseries.- 9. The Place of the Family in East Asian Bioethics.- Part III. Topics - Selected Topics and Reprints From the Series’ History.- 10.- Lost in Translation: How 1979 Proved Pivotal for Bioethics and Why We Need a Narrative Account of Morality in Medicine.- 11. Anatomy of a Clinical Judgment:  Some Notes on Right Reason and Right Action.- 12. The Subjective in Clinical Judgment.- 13. What is the True Death of a Human Being.- Appendix: P&M volumes.