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The Growth of Medical Knowledge

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Editors:
  1. Henk A. M. J. Have

    1. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Limburg, Maastricht, Netherlands

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  2. Gerrit K. Kimsma

    1. Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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  3. Stuart F. Spicker

    1. School of Medicine, University of Connecticut, Health Center, Farmington, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 36)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  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

  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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About this book

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.

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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

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Growth of Medical Knowledge

  • Editors: Henk A. M. J. Have, Gerrit K. Kimsma, Stuart F. Spicker

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2025-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0736-5Published: 31 August 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7408-7Published: 27 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2025-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 196

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

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