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Evaluation and Explanation in the Biomedical Sciences

Proceedings of the First Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Galveston, May 9–11, 1974

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1975
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Editors:
  1. H. Tristram Engelhardt

    1. University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA

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  2. Stuart F. Spicker

    1. University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 1)

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VI
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., Stuart F. Spicker
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About this book

This volume inaugurates a series concerning philosophy and medicine. There are few, if any, areas of social concern so pervasive as medicine and yet as underexamined by philosophy. But the claim to precedence of the Proceedings of the First Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philos­ ophy and Medicine must be qualified. Claims to be "first" are notorious in the history of scientific as well as humanistic investigation and the claim that the First Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine has no precedent is not meant to be put in bald form. The editors clearly do not maintain that philosophers and physicians have not heretofore discussed matters of mutual concern, nor that individual philosophers and physicians have never taken up problems and concepts in medicine which are themselves at the boundary or interface of these two disciplines - concepts like "matter," "disease," "psyche. " Surely there have been books published on the logic and philosophy of medi­ 1 cine. But the formalization of issues and concepts in medicine has not received, at least in this century, sustained interest by professional phi­ losophers. Groups of philosophers have not engaged medicine in order to explicate its philosophical presuppositions and to sort out the various concepts which appear in medicine. The scope of such an effort takes the philosopher beyond problems and issues which today are subsumed under the rubric "medical ethics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA

    H. Tristram Engelhardt

  • University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA

    Stuart F. Spicker

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evaluation and Explanation in the Biomedical Sciences

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the First Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Galveston, May 9–11, 1974

  • Editors: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Stuart F. Spicker

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1769-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1975

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-1771-8Published: 19 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1769-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 246

  • Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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