Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine

by Thomas Schramme (Editor), Steven Edwards (Editor)

Overview

Dealing with each aspect of the philosophy of medicine, this handbook provides a readership ranging from physicians to policymakers with authoritative coverage of everything from core philosophical questions to the latest thinking on the use of technology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789401786874
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	01/03/2017
Edition description:	2017
Pages:	1144
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Thomas Schramme is Professor of Philosophy at the Liverpool. He works mainly on theories of health and disease and on philosophical topics in psychiatry. He has also published on health justice.

Mary Jean Walker is Lecturer in philosophy at La Trobe University. Her work in the philosophy of medicine includes contributions to debate on the concept of disease and investigation of the epistemology of personalised medicine. She also has research interests in bioethics, especially emerging technology bioethics and applications of medical phenomenology.

Table of Contents

Core concepts in health care.- Organisms.- Patients.- Clinical settings.- Medical knowledge.- Nosology.- Health care systems/ institutions.- Medicine in the service of law/politics.- Metaphilosophy of medicine and health care.

Editorial Reviews

Editors Thomas Schramme and Steven Edwards have assembled the Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine with the understanding that philosophy of medicine has indeed become an established field of study … . the Springer Handbook succeeds as a comprehensive resource in contemporary philosophy of medicine and should be available in all major libraries supporting education and research in health care and philosophy of medicine and science.” (Patrick Daly, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, November, 2017)

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