书目名称 | Establishing Medical Reality | 副标题 | Essays in the Metaph | 编辑 | Harold Kincaid,Jennifer McKitrick | 视频video | | 概述 | Approaches issues in philosophy of medicine from a philosophy of science perspective.Ties metaphysical issues to contemporary controversies in medicine.Would be a good supplemental text for courses in | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Medicine has been a very fruitful source of significant issues for philosophy over the last 30 years. The vast majority of the issues discussed have been normative – they have been problems in morality and political philosophy that now make up the field called bioethics. However, biomedical science presents many other philosophical questions that have gotten relatively little attention, particularly topics in metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of science. This volume focuses on problems in these areas as they surface in biomedical science. Important changes in philosophy make biomedical science an especially int- esting area of inquiry. Contemporary philosophy is largely naturalistic in approach – it takes philosophy to be constrained by the results of the natural sciences and able to contribute to the natural sciences as well. Exactly what those constraints and contributions should be is a matter of controversy. What is not controversial is that important questions in philosophy of science and metaphysics are raised by the practice of science. Physics, biology, and economics have all drawn extensive phi- sophical analysis, so much so that philosophical study of these areas h | 出版日期 | Book 20071st edition | 关键词 | Ethical Dilemma; Ethical Issues; Philosophy of Science; Public Health; bioethics; ethics; evidence based m | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5216-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-7312-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-5216-3 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 |
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