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Polish School of Philosophy of Medicine
From Tytus Chalubinski (1820–1889) to Ludwik Fleck (1896–1961)
Av Ilana Löwy
Inbunden, 1990
1643 kr
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My 'discovery' of the Polish School of philosophy of medicine stemmed from my studies in the genesis of Ludwik Fleck's epistemology. These studies, and my interest in the scientific roots of Fleck's epistemology were a nearly 'natural' result of my own biography: like Fleck I had been trained, an …
Suicide and Euthanasia
Historical and Contemporary Themes
Av B.A. Brody
Inbunden, 1989
1098 kr
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Growth of Medical Knowledge
Av H.A. Ten Have, G.L Kimsma m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
1098 kr
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The growth of knowledge and its effects on the practice of medicine have been issues of philosophical and ethical interest for several decades and will remain so for many years to come. The outline of the present volume was conceived nearly three years ago. In 1987, a conference on this theme was …
Rights to Health Care
Av Thomas J. Bole III, W.B. Bondeson
Inbunden, 1991
1643 kr
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Human existence is marked by pain, limitation, disability, disease, suffering, and death. These facts of life and of death give ample grounds for characterizing much of the human condition as unfortunate. A core philosophical question is whether the circumstances are in addition unfair or unjust in …
Competency
A Study of Informal Competency Determinations in Primary Care
Av Mary Ann Gardell Cutter, E.E. Shelp
Inbunden, 1991
1643 kr
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Some conferences produce proceedings, others an inspiration to labor, which finally leads to a published work. Such has been the case with regard to this volume. In 1984, the Center for Ethics, Medicine, and Public Issues held a conference with the title 'When are Competent Patients Incompetent?' …
Ethics of Diagnosis
Av José Luis Peset, Diego Gracia Guillén
Inbunden, 1992
1643 kr
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A major focus of the philosophy of medicine and, in general, of the philosophy of science has been the interplay of facts and values. Nowhere is an evaluation of this interplay more important than in the ethics of diagnosis. Traditionally, diagnosis has been understood as an epistemological …
Meaning of Illness
A Phenomenological Account of the Different Perspectives of Physician and Patient
Inbunden, 1992
1752 kr
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A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH My interest in exploring the nature of the patient's and the physician's understanding of illness has grown out of my own experience as a multiple sclerosis patient. In discussing my illness with physicians, it has often seemed to me that we have been somehow talking at …
Body in Medical Thought and Practice
Av D. Leder
Inbunden, 1992
1098 kr
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In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a central theme of intellectual debate. How should we perceive the human body? Is it best understood biologically, experientially, culturally? How do social institutions exercise power over the body and determine norms of health and …
Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine
European-American Dialogues
Av C. Delkeskamp-Hayes, Mary Ann Gardell Cutter
Inbunden, 1993
1643 kr
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Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine contains papers by eminent scholars who discuss issues and concepts regarding the character of medicine. Special attention is given to the extent to which medicine is a science, art, and technology. Investigations are carried out with a particular focus …
Codification of Medical Morality
Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Volume One: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in the Eighteenth Century
Av R.B. Baker, R. Porter
Inbunden, 1993
1098 kr
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The editors have incurred many debts in preparing this book, and both etiquette and ethics would be contravened if they were not discharged here. Above all, we wish to thank the contributors for so cheerfully complying with our suggestions for preparing their papers for publication and efficiently …
Meaning of Illness
A Phenomenological Account of the Different Perspectives of Physician and Patient
Häftad, 1993
1752 kr
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A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH My interest in exploring the nature of the patient's and the physician's understanding of illness has grown out of my own experience as a multiple sclerosis patient. In discussing my illness with physicians, it has often seemed to me that we have been somehow talking at …
Birth, Suffering, and Death
Catholic Perspectives at the Edges of Life
Av Kevin Wm. Wildes S.J., Francesc Abel S.J. m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
1643 kr
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For centuries the Roman Catholic Church has been concerned with the moral implications of medical practice. Indeed, until two decades ago, Catholic moral theologians were the major source of moral guidance, scholarly reflection and teaching on a variety of medical-moral topics, particularly those …
Concept of Moral Consensus
The Case of Technological Interventions in Human Reproduction
Av K. Bayertz
Inbunden, 1994
1130 kr
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Books do not come about by accident. This is especially the case when a volume grows out of a conference for which the participants wrote the original contributions in different languages. This volume descends from a conference held at the Zentrumjiir interdiszipliniire Forschung, University of …
Concepts and Measurement of Quality of Life in Health Care
Inbunden, 1994
2188 kr
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Questions concerning the notion of quality of life, its definition, and its ap plications for purposes of assessment and measurement in social and medical contexts, have been widely discussed in Scandinavia during the last ten years. To a great extent this discussion mirrors the international …
Legislating Medical Ethics
A Study of the New York State Do-Not-Resuscitate Law
Inbunden, 1995
569 kr
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Can medical ethics be legislated? Can a complex bioethical question be definitively answered through legislation? In July 1987 the New York State legislature experimented with legislating medical ethics by amending the state's public health law to regulate `Do Not Resuscitate' orders. The …
On the Nature of Health
An Action-Theoretic Approach
Inbunden, 1995
1643 kr
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION This study of the concept of health is an attempt to combine central ideas in modern philosophy of medicine with certain results from analytical action theory. What emerges from the study is a concept 'of health based on an action-theoretic foundation. A person's health is …
Critical Choices and Critical Care
Catholic Perspectives on Allocating Resources in Intensive Care Medicine
Inbunden, 1995
1130 kr
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This text brings together the traditional reflections on ordinary and extraordinary means with Catholic social thought. It examines the difficult questions on the allocation of high technology resources used in intensive care medicine. The book also provides relevant background information (- such …
On the Nature of Health
An Action-Theoretic Approach
Häftad, 1995
1643 kr
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION This study of the concept of health is an attempt to combine central ideas in modern philosophy of medicine with certain results from analytical action theory. What emerges from the study is a concept 'of health based on an action-theoretic foundation. A person's health is …
Codification of Medical Morality
Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesVolume Two: Anglo-American Medical Ethics and Medical Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth Century
Av R.B. Baker
Inbunden, 1995
1130 kr
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Like many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its predecessor arose over lunch in the cafeteria of the old Wellcome Institute. On an atternoon in Sept- ber 1988, Dorothy and Roy Porter, and I, sketched out a plan for a set of conf- ences in which scholars from a variety of disciplines would …
Codification of Medical Morality
Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesVolume Two: Anglo-American Medical Ethics and Medical Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth Century
Av R.B. Baker
Häftad, 1995
1130 kr
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Like many novel ideas, the idea for this volume and its predecessor arose over lunch in the cafeteria of the old Wellcome Institute. On an atternoon in Sept- ber 1988, Dorothy and Roy Porter, and I, sketched out a plan for a set of conf- ences in which scholars from a variety of disciplines would …
Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics
A Twenty-Year Retrospective and Critical Appraisal
Av Ronald A. Carson, C.R. Burns
Inbunden, 1997
1643 kr
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Papers presented at a symposium on philosophy and medicine at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1974 were published in the inaugural volume of this series. To help celebrate more than 20 years of extraordinary success with the series, another …
Critical Choices and Critical Care
Catholic Perspectives on Allocating Resources in Intensive Care Medicine
Häftad, 1995
1130 kr
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Critical Choices and Critical Care brings together the traditional reflections on ordinary and extraordinary means with Catholic social thought. It examines the difficult questions on the allocation of high technology resources used in intensive care medicine. The book also provides relevant …
Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity
Av K. Bayertz
Inbunden, 1996
2253 kr
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`Sanctity of life' and `human dignity' are two bioethical concepts that play an important role in bioethical discussions. Despite their separate history and content, they have similar functions in these discussions. In many cases they are used to bring a difficult or controversial debate to an end. …
Infertility
A Crossroad of Faith, Medicine, and Technology
Inbunden, 1996
1098 kr
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Infertility: A Crossroad of Faith, Medicine, and Technology brings together a diverse group of clinicians, theologians, and philosophers to examine the use of reproductive technologies in the light of the Roman Catholic moral tradition and recent teaching. The book provides relevant background …
Japanese and Western Bioethics
Studies in Moral Diversity
Av K. Hoshino
Inbunden, 1996
1692 kr
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The editors of the Philosophy and Medicine series recognize with grat itude the foresight, understanding, hard labor, and patience of Prof. Kazumasa Hoshino. It is his perseverance that has made this volume a reality. It was his faith in ideas that brought together a cluster of scholars in Tokyo …
Germ-Line Intervention and Our Responsibilities to Future Generations
Av Emmanuel Agius, S. Busuttil
Inbunden, 1997
1692 kr
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In contemporary ethical discussion widespread concern about the potential risks of genetic engineering is raising new and fundamental questions about our responsibilities towards unborn generations. Newly acquired knowledge in genetic engineering techniques has brought about not only potential …
John Gregory and the Invention of Professional Medical Ethics and the Profession of Medicine
Inbunden, 1998
1692 kr
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The best things in my Ufe have come to me by accident and this book results from one such accident: my having the opportunity, out of the blue, to go to work as H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. 's, research assistant at the Institute for the Medical Humanities in the University of Texas Medi cal Branch …
Consensus Formation in Healthcare Ethics
Av H.A. Ten Have, Hans-Martin Sass
Inbunden, 1998
1130 kr
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debating (and possibly ratifying) the Convention at the national level [13]. The Convention identified basic principles necessary for the applica tion of medicine and the life sciences. It set out to protect the dignity and identity of all human beings: ''The interests and welfare of the human …
John Gregory's Writings on Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine
Inbunden, 1998
1098 kr
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This volume introduces a new subseries of Philosophy and Medicine, Classics of Medical Ethics. The purpose of this new subseries is to bring out scholars' editions of major works in the history of medical ethics and philosophy of medicine. This new subseries will target for publication texts that …
Ownership of the Human Body
Philosophical Considerations on the Use of the Human Body and its Parts in Healthcare
Inbunden, 1998
1580 kr
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This is the first book in healthcare ethics addressing the moral issues regarding ownership of the human body. Modern medicine increasingly transforms the body and makes use of body parts for diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive purposes. The book analyzes the concept of body ownership. It also …
