Title | Evaluation and Explanation in the Biomedical Sciences [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the First Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Galveston, May 9-11, 1974 / edited by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Stuart F. Spicker |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1975 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1769-5 |
Descript | 246 p. online resource |
Section I / Value and Explanation: Historical Roots -- Some Basic Explanations of Disease: An Historianโs Viewpoint -- Diseases Versus Healths: Some Legacies in the Philosophies of Modern Medical Science -- Section II / Philosophy of Science in Transition to a Philosophy of Medicine -- Concepts of Function and Mechanism in Medicine and Medical Science (Hommage ร Claude Bernard) -- Organs, Organisms and Disease: Human Ontology and Medical Practice -- Comments on โConcepts of Function and Mechanism in Medicine and Medical Scienceโ and โOrgans, Organisms and Diseaseโ -- Section III / Ethics and Medicine -- How Virtues Become Vices: Values, Medicine and Social Context -- Moral Philosophy and Medical Perplexity: Comments on โHow Virtues Become Vicesโ -- Section IV / Concepts in Medical Theory -- The Concepts of Health and Disease -- On Disease: Theories of Disease and the Ascription of Disease: Comments on โThe Concepts of Health and Diseaseโ -- Section V / Body and Self: Phenomenological Perspectives -- Context and Reflexivity: The Genealogy of Self -- Comments on โContext and Reflexivityโ -- The Lived-Body as Catalytic Agent: Reaction at the Interface of Medicine and Philosophy -- Comments on โThe Lived-Body as Catalytic Agentโ -- Section VI / The Role of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences: Contribution or Intrusion? -- Round-Table Discussion -- Notes on Contributors