The Philosophy of Medicine

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. The Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics: An Introduction to the Framing of a Field

   1. The Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics: An Introduction to the Framing of a Field

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

      Pages 1-15

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3. The Philosophy of the Body and Bioethics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Bodies of Knowledge, Philosophical Anthropology, and Philosophy of Medicine

      • Henk A. M. J. Ten Have

      Pages 19-36

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   3. Bodies, Body Parts, and Body Language: Reflections on Ontology and Personal Identity in Medical Practice

      • Marx W. Wartofsky

      Pages 37-55

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   4. Bodies and Minds in the Philosophy of Medicine: Organ Sales and the Lived Body

      • Mark J. Cherry

      Pages 57-78

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4. Euthanasia, Secular Priests, And the Centrality of Choice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Accommodating Death: Euthanasia in The Netherlands

      • Thomas Halper

      Pages 81-116

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   3. Why Should Anyone Listen to Ethics Consultants?

      • George J. Agich

      Pages 117-137

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   4. Changing Views of Paternalism in Research: Aids Activists Demand Change

      • Loretta M. Kopelman

      Pages 139-156

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5. Fundamental Categories: The Mind, Equity, The State, and Time

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Three Designations of Disorder: Diversity, Disease and Determinism in Psychiatric Thought and Practice

      • K. W. M. Fulford

      Pages 159-176

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   3. Equity and the Health Effects of Urbanization

      • Bernard M. Dickens

      Pages 177-194

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   4. Engelhardt on Kant’s Moral Foundations and Hegel’s Category of the State

      • Thomas J. Bole III

      Pages 195-221

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   5. Bole on Kant, Hegel, and Engelhardt: A Brief Reply

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

      Pages 223-225

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   6. Epilogue: The Use of the Past

      • Akio Sakai

      Pages 227-234

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6. Back Matter

   Pages 235-254

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The term `bioethics' was coined in 1971, just as interest in the medical humanities claimed a prominent place in medical education. Out of this interest, a substantial area of research and scholarship took shape: the philosophy of medicine. This field has been directed to the epistemological, ontological, and value-theoretical issues occasioned by medicine and the biomedical sciences. Bioethics is nested in this field and can only be fully understood in terms of the foundational issues it addresses. This collection of essays in honor of Stuart F. Spicker, one of the individuals who gave shape to the philosophy of medicine, lays out the broad scope of concerns from the philosophy of embodiment, to issues of the role of ethics consultants, to concepts of disease, equity and the meaning of history.

• Immanuel Kant
• Moral
• anthropology
• bioethics
• ethics
• health
• ontology
• philosophy

• Philosophy Department, Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

  H. Tristram Engelhardt

Policies and ethics