The Growth of Medical Knowledge

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Henk A. M. J. Ten Have, Stuart F. Spicker

      Pages 1-11

3. Medicine, History, and Culture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Knowledge and Practice in European Medicine: The Case of Infectious Diseases

      • Henk A. M. J. Ten Have

      Pages 15-40

   3. Frames of Reference and the Growth of Medical Knowledge: L. Fleck and M. Foucault

      • Gerrit K. Kimsma

      Pages 41-62

   4. Medical Knowledge and Medical Action: Competing Visions

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

      Pages 63-71

4. Philosophy of Science and the Growth of Medical Knowledge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. Function and Value of Medical Knowledge in Modern Diseases

      • Henrik R. Wulff

      Pages 75-86

   3. The Growth of Medical Knowledge: An Epistemological Exploration

      • Paul J. Thung

      Pages 87-101

   4. The Development of Population Research on Causes of Death: Growth of Knowledge or Accumulation of Data?

      • B. Ingemar B. Lindahl

      Pages 103-119

   5. Comments on Wulff’s, Thung’s and Lindahl’s Essays on the Growth of Medical Knowledge

      • Lennart Nordenfelt

      Pages 121-129

5. Image of Man and the Growth of Medical Knowledge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Medicine, Anthropology, and the Human Body

      • Gerlof Verwey

      Pages 133-162

   3. Invulnerability and Medicine’s “Promise” of Immortality: Changing Images of the Human Body during the Growth of Medical Knowledge

      • Stuart F. Spicker

      Pages 163-175

   4. Values and the Growth of Medical Knowledge

      • Uffe Juul Jensen

      Pages 177-185

6. Back Matter

   Pages 187-196

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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 held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, on the occasion of the founding of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care (ESPMH). Most of the chapters of this book are derived from papers presented at that meeting, and for the purpose of editing the book Stuart Spicker, Ph. D. , joined two founding members of ESPMH, Henk ten Have and Gerrit Kimsma. The three of them successfully brought together a number of interesting contribu­ tions to the theme, and ESPMH is grateful and proud to have initiated the production of this volume. The Society intends that annual meetings be held in different European countries on a rotating basis and to publish volumes related to these meetings whenever feasible. In 1988, the second conference was held in Aarhus, Denmark on "Values in Medical Decision Making and Resource Allocation in Health Care". In 1989, a meeting was held in Czestochowa, Poland, on "European Traditions in Philosophy of Medicine. From Brentano to Bieganski". It is hoped that these conferences and the books to be derived from them, will initiate a new European tradition, lasting well into the 21 st century! P. J.

• Michel Foucault
• anthropology
• diseases
• growth
• infectious disease
• medical knowledge
• mortality
• philosophy
• philosophy of science

This is a rich book, combining successfully, normally discrete disciplines which take medical knowledge as a topic. Explorations in Knowledge
I recommend this book to anyone interested in philosophy and growth of medical knowledge and particularly to students of medicine. Social Science and Medicine

• Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Limburg, Maastricht, Netherlands

  Henk A. M. J. Have

• Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  Gerrit K. Kimsma

• School of Medicine, University of Connecticut, Health Center, Farmington, USA

  Stuart F. Spicker

Policies and ethics