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Establishing Medical Reality
. Ed(S): Kincaid, Harold; McKitrick, Jennifer
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Description for Establishing Medical Reality
Paperback. Editor(s): Kincaid, Harold; McKitrick, Jennifer. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 385.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Philosophy and Medicine
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048173129
SKU
V9789048173129
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Reviews for Establishing Medical Reality
From the reviews: "…An excellent collection of essays in the philosophy of medicine. Whereas most philosophical work about medicine has been concerned with medical ethics, this volume focuses more on key questions in epistemology and metaphysics, although many of these are also relevant to ethical issues. Some of the chapters are among the best I have read in the ... Read more