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Mary Ann Gardell Cutter - Reframing Disease Contextually - 9789048165100 - V9789048165100
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Reframing Disease Contextually

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Description for Reframing Disease Contextually Paperback. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBDC; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 299.

Reframing Disease Contextually will be of particular interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers. It may also be of value to medical professionals, historians of western medicine, and health policy makers who take interest in the conceptual foundations of medicine.

This book:
- provides an overview of key debates in the history of modern western medicine on the nature, knowledge, and value of disease;
- illustrates how these debates relate;
- provides a "contextual" or "localized" way of understanding disease;
- includes case studies of e.g. AIDS, genetic disease, and gendered disease;
- conveys ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
Series
Philosophy and Medicine
Number of Pages
195
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048165100
SKU
V9789048165100
Shipping Time
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99-15

Reviews for Reframing Disease Contextually
From the reviews: "Mary Ann Cutter’s ‘Reframing Disease Contextually’ draws together a number of themes in philosophy of medicine in order to make the case that disease should be understood contextually and locally. ... Overall, this book makes an important case for viewing disease as ‘contextual’ ... the examples of contextualism analyzed by Cutter are ... Read more

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