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The Philosophy of Medicine: Framing the Field

By H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. (Editor)
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By H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. (Editor)

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The term ‘bioethics' was coined in 1971, just as interest in the medical humanities claimed a prominent place in medical education. Out of this interest, a substantial area of research and scholarship took shape: the philosophy of medicine. This field has been directed to the epistemological, ontological, and value-theoretical issues occasioned by medicine and the biomedical sciences. Bioethics is nested in this field and can only be fully understood in terms of the foundational issues it a...

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