Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Toward a medico-philosophical entente

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

9-11

Introduction

Zbigniew Zalewski

1-11

The ontopoietic design of life and medicine's search for the norm

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

13-36

Two models of medical knowledge

Zbigniew Szawarski

39-47

The logics of medicine

Discovery and evaluation

Kevin Wildes

49-56

An analysis of medical knowledge and reasoning

Jan Doroszewski

57-66

The significance of "alternative medicine" for the philosophy of medicine

Joachim Widder

67-74

The phenomenological aspects of mental disorders

Piotr Mróz

74-84

Illness as evil and illness as good

Jan Hartmann

85-90

The aesthetics of medicine

Maria Gołaszewska

91-101

Medicine and art

Grazyna Podraza-Ucińska

103-111

The zapping animal

Oscillating images of the human person in modern medicine

Henk Ten Have

115-123

New biomedical developments and their impact on the legal theory and practice of the mind-body relationship

Christian Byk

125-133

The human being — a cosmic being

Marta Kudelska

135-144

The philosophical foundations of yoga therapy

Marzenna Jakubczak

145-151

To be (alive) or to have (good health)

Kornel Gibiński

153-159

(Wo)man and death in the second half of the twentieth century

Kazimierz Szweczyk

161-171

Existential values

Jozef Lipiec

173-182

Is personalism an adequate moral system for bioethics?

Maurice De Wachter

183-192

From abortion to euthanasia

Rethinking the value of life at the end of the Christian age

Tristram Engelhardt

195-207

Changing values in contemporary medicine

Robert Barnet

209-221

Clinical decisions, impaired capacity and the public interest

Donald Evans

223-238

Advance directives

Self-determination, physician's responsibility, value of life

Hans-Martin Sass

239-253

The ethical problems of doctors' decisions

The patient’s autonomy and paternalism

Barbara Maroszyńska-Jezowska

255-262

Some remarks on "quasi-surrogate" decision-making

Jacek Jaśtal

263-269

Justice and beneficence in deficiency medicine

Anna Alichniewicz

271-281

The media and health

Ignacy Fiut

283-292

The Polish school of philosophy of medicine

Lessons from the past

Ilana Löwy

295-308

Władysław Szumowski: forerunner of contemporary philosophy of medicine

Władysław Szumowski

309-315

Index of names