Titlebook: An Introductory Philosophy of Medicine; Humanizing Modern Me James A. Marcum Book 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 Biomedicin

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e of the Future” is actually the future of ., and, at the bottom, the essay is an argument regarding the probable future relationship between . and life. We find, then, that knowledge, which comprises both philosophy and science, is Bogdanov’s greater concern and that, for him, the historical role o

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Medical Worldviewsrameters essential to a worldview, such as the mythical, emotional, and ethical..Modern medicine is certainly part of a larger worldview that constitutes western culture. In this chapter, the metaphysical positions, along with the metaphysical presuppositions and ontological commitments, which groun

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Medical Causation and Realismiseases and poor health, as well as good health and wellbeing. Identifying a disease’s cause is the first step often towards the possibility of treating a patient’s diseased state or illness..Realism, as a metaphysical notion, has also been vigorously contested during the history of western philosop

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Disease or Illness and Health or Wellbeingess and wellbeing..The participants in the debate can be divided into two camps: the naturalists and the normativists. According to naturalists, disease and health are descriptive concepts that can be used to define the objective and real state or condition of a person. These concepts are strictly n

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Diagnosis and TherapeuticsJohn, 1998). The standard outsidein approach is the differential diagnostic method. Through this method, a physician uses the data generated from laboratory tests and physical examinations to eliminate the different hypotheses not causally responsible for a patient’s disease state. Once the proper d

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Medical Thinkinge usually taboo” (1998, p. 33)..Humanistic or humane practitioners, although recognizing the significance and value of objective knowledge for medical practice, subscribe to a subjective way of thinking and reasoning that includes the intuitions, values, and virtues of the knower. Importantly, this

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Medical Explanationsion is up or away from the center of the earth..In this chapter various explanatory schemes are examined, especially in terms of scientific and medical knowledge. Beginning with covering law explanation that dominated philosophical understanding of explanation for decades, the discussion turns to ex