Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes

      Pages 1-20

3. Medical Facts and Scientific Progress: The Scientific Status of Medical Knowledge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. On The Scientific Status of Medical Research: Case Study and Interpretation According to Ludwik Fleck

      • Lothar Schäfer

      Pages 23-38

   3. The Scientific Status of Medical Research: A Reply to Schäfer

      • Nelly Tsouyopoulus

      Pages 39-46

   4. Ludwik Fleck and the Philosophy of Medicine: A Commentary on Schäfer and Tsouyopoulos

      • Reidar Krummradt Lie

      Pages 47-54

4. Causality and Explanation in Medicine: The Regard for Practice in Medical Knowledge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. On the History of Medical Causality

      • José Luis Peset

      Pages 57-74

   3. Causality and Conditionality in Medicine around 1900

      • Dietrich Von Engelhardt

      Pages 75-104

   4. On Medicine’s Scientificity—Did Medicine’s Accession to Scientific ‘Positivity’ in the Course of the Nineteenth Century Require Giving up Causal (Etiological) Explanation?

      • Anne M. Fagot-Largeault

      Pages 105-126

   5. Causation and the Conceptual Scheme of Medical Knowledge

      • Eric T. Juengst

      Pages 127-152

   6. The Dilemma of Medical Causality and the Issue of Biological Individuality

      • Anne Marie Moulin

      Pages 153-162

5. Art and Intuition in Medical Decisions: The Regard for Knowledge in Medical Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. The Concept of the Art of Medicine

      • Wolfgang Wieland

      Pages 165-181

   3. Intuition and Technology as Bases of Medical Decision-Making

      • Rudolf Gross

      Pages 183-197

   4. Intuition and the Process of Medical Diagnosis: The Quest for Explicit Knowledge in the Technological Era

      • Stuart F. Spicker

      Pages 199-210

   5. Intuition in the Art and Science of Medicine

      • Ray Moseley

      Pages 211-218

   6. Technoscience and Medicine

      • Raphael Sassower

      Pages 219-228

6. Obligations to Patients: The Purpose of Medical Practice and Its Consequences for Knowledge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

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   2. Knowledge and Art in the Practice of Medicine: Clinical Judgment and Historical Reconstruction

      • Stephen Toulmin

      Pages 231-249

Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine contains papers by eminent scholars who discuss issues and concepts regarding the character of medicine. Special attention is given to the extent to which medicine is a science, art, and technology. Investigations are carried out with a particular focus on the nature of medical knowledge. Concepts of medical research, medical causality, intuition, and medical decision-making are examined in the light of medicine's revolutionary advances in the twentieth century. Past perspectives and present perplexities are also examined, bringing together a volume in the philosophy of medicine that treats a broad range of issues in medical epistemology and practise in a careful, critical fashion.

• diagnosis
• epistemology
• interpret
• issue
• knowledge
• medical knowledge
• medicine
• philosophy
• philosophy of medicine
• practice of medicine

• International Studies in Philosophy and Medicine, Germany

  Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes

• Dept. of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA

  Mary Ann Gardell Cutter

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