The Philosophy of Medicine Framing the Field /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Engelhardt, H. Tristram. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine ; 64
• Subjects: Medicine.; Philosophy.; Ethics.; Ontology.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Philosophy, general.
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The term `bioethics' was coined in 1971, just as interest in the medical humanities claimed a prominent place in medical education. Out of this interest, a substantial area of research and scholarship took shape: the philosophy of medicine. This field has been directed to the epistemological, o...

Table of Contents:

• The Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics: An Introduction to the Framing of a Field
• The Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics: An Introduction to the Framing of a Field
• The Philosophy of the Body and Bioethics
• Bodies of Knowledge, Philosophical Anthropology, and Philosophy of Medicine
• Bodies, Body Parts, and Body Language: Reflections on Ontology and Personal Identity in Medical Practice
• Bodies and Minds in the Philosophy of Medicine: Organ Sales and the Lived Body
• Euthanasia, Secular Priests, And the Centrality of Choice
• Accommodating Death: Euthanasia in The Netherlands
• Why Should Anyone Listen to Ethics Consultants?
• Changing Views of Paternalism in Research: Aids Activists Demand Change
• Fundamental Categories: The Mind, Equity, The State, and Time
• Three Designations of Disorder: Diversity, Disease and Determinism in Psychiatric Thought and Practice
• Equity and the Health Effects of Urbanization
• Engelhardt on KantỚ"s Moral Foundations and HegelỚ"s Category of the State
• Bole on Kant, Hegel, and Engelhardt: A Brief Reply
• Epilogue: The Use of the Past.