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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Reframing Disease Contextually will be of particular interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers. It may also be of value to medical professionals, historians of western medicine, and health policy makers who take interest in the conceptual foundations of medicine.
This book:
- provides an overview of key debates in the history of modern western medicine on the nature, knowledge, and value of disease;
- illustrates how these debates relate;
- provides a "contextual" or "localized" way of understanding disease;
- includes case studies of e.g. AIDS, genetic disease, and gendered disease;
- conveys the importance of the intersection and interrelation between and among factors that make up disease;
- illustrates how bioethical discussions about disease naming, classification, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment are part of a much greater discussion in philosophy of medicine.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Mary Ann Cutter’s ‘Reframing Disease Contextually’ draws together a number of themes in philosophy of medicine in order to make the case that disease should be understood contextually and locally. ... Overall, this book makes an important case for viewing disease as ‘contextual’ ... the examples of contextualism analyzed by Cutter are a useful and powerful way of making this point. ... All in All, this book is well worth reading." (Robyn Bluhm, Metapsychology Online Reviews, July, 2006)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reframing Disease Contextually
Authors: Mary Ann G. Cutter
Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0155-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1796-4Published: 31 December 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6510-0Published: 06 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-0155-6Published: 09 March 2013
Series ISSN: 0376-7418
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 195
Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, History of Medicine