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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Disease or Illness and Health or Wellbeingvently debated in the current medical literature (Boyd, 2000). For example, Germund Hesslow (1993) claims that the distinction between health and disease is “irrelevant” for medical practice, since a disease is not required for soliciting medical attention.1 The purpose of the following chapter is n

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Clinical Judging and Decision Makingural sciences. “The assumption that clinical reasoning is applied scientific reasoning,” claims Mattingly, “underlies nearly all research on clinical reasoning in medical fields, and the informal perceptions of practicing health professionals” (1998, p. 275). For humanistic practitioners, clinical j

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Therapeutic Knowledgeertainly more dependent on technical innovation than fifty years ago, as detailed in Chapter 5. But that dependency is more than simply a need for technical devices in order to practice medicine; rather, it has a definite epistemological component. “The . of technology,” according to Ian McWhinney,

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Medical Axiology and Valuesbscribe to influence not only contemporary medical knowledge and practice but also the use of that knowledge and its practice. Values serve fundamentally to define not only what is of proximate-but also of ultimate-worth. They “are concepts we use to explain how and why various realities matter. Val