Humanizing modern medicine an introductory philosophy of medicine
In this book the author explores the shifting philosophical boundaries of modern medical knowledge and practice occasioned by the crisis of quality-of-care, especially in terms of the various humanistic adjustments to the biomedical model.
eBook, English, 2008
Springer Springer, [Dordrecht], [Heidelberg], 2008
Philosophy and medicine, Vol. 99
Online-Ressource.
9781402067976, 1402067976
1184252609
Druckausg.
Metaphysics.- Medical Worldviews.- Medical Causation and Realism.- Patient as Body or Person.- Disease or Illness and Health or Wellbeing.- Diagnosis and Therapeutics.- Epistemology.- Medical Thinking.- Clinical Judging and Decision Making.- Medical Explanations.- Diagnostic Knowledge.- Therapeutic Knowledge.- Ethics.- Medical Axiology and Values.- Origins of Bioethics and Normative Ethics.- Principlism and the Future of Bioethics.- Emotionally Detached Concern or Empathic Care.- Patient-Physician Relationships.
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