
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2012
Series: Philosophy and medicine
ISBN (Hardback): 9789400722590
Full citation:
, Handbook of analytic philosophy of medicine, Berlin, Springer, 2012
Abstract
Medical practice is practiced morality, and clinical research belongs to normative ethics. The present book elucidates and advances this thesis by: 1. analyzing the structure of medical language, knowledge, and theories; 2. inquiring into the foundations of the clinical encounter; 3. introducing the logic and methodology of clinical decision-making; 4. suggesting comprehensive theories of organism, life, and psyche; of health, illness, and disease; of etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, and therapy; and 5. investigating the moral and metaphysical issues central to medical practice and research.
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2012
Series: Philosophy and medicine
ISBN (Hardback): 9789400722590
Full citation:
, Handbook of analytic philosophy of medicine, Berlin, Springer, 2012