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The Philosophy of Medicine

Framing the Field

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. H. Tristram Engelhardt

    1. Philosophy Department, Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 64)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  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

  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

    3. Why Should Anyone Listen to Ethics Consultants?

      • George J. Agich
      Pages 117-137

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

      • Loretta M. Kopelman
      Pages 139-156

  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

    3. Equity and the Health Effects of Urbanization

      • Bernard M. Dickens
      Pages 177-194

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

      • Thomas J. Bole III
      Pages 195-221

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

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
      Pages 223-225

    6. Epilogue: The Use of the Past

      • Akio Sakai
      Pages 227-234

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 235-254
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    H. Tristram Engelhardt

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Philosophy of Medicine

  • Book Subtitle: Framing the Field

  • Editors: H. Tristram Engelhardt

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47475-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6223-4Published: 31 July 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5419-7Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47475-0Published: 28 April 2006

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 256

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Ethics, Ontology, Philosophy, general

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