Medicine & Philosophy: A Twenty-First Century Introduction

Ingvar Johansson; Niels Lynøe

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2008

Medicine & Philosophy

A Twenty-First Century Introduction

Ingvar Johansson and Niels Lynøe

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110321364

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Contents

About this book

This textbook introduces the reader to basic problems in the philosophy of science and ethics, mainly by means of examples from medicine. It is based on the conviction that philosophy, medical science, medical informatics, and medical ethics are overlapping disciplines. It claims that the philosophical lessons to learn from the twentieth century are not that nature is a ‘social construction’ and that ‘anything goes’ with respect to methodological and moral rules. Instead, it claims that there is scientific knowledge, but that it is never completely secure; that there are norms, but that they are situation-bound; and that, therefore, it makes good sense to search for scientific truths and try to act in a morally decent way. Using philosophical catchwords, the authors advocate ‘fallibilism’ and ‘particularism’; a combination that might be called ‘pragmatic realism’.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. Science, Morals, and Philosophy Publicly Available Download PDF	1
2. How and Why Does Science Develop? Publicly Available Download PDF	7
3. What Is a Scientific Fact? Publicly Available Download PDF	43
4. What Does Scientific Argumentation Look Like? Publicly Available Download PDF	91
5. Knowing How and Knowing That Publicly Available Download PDF	155
6. The Clinical Medical Paradigm Publicly Available Download PDF	173
7. Placebo and Nocebo Phenomena Publicly Available Download PDF	211
8. Pluralism and Medical Science Publicly Available Download PDF	245
9. Medicine and Ethics Publicly Available Download PDF	267
10. Medical Research Ethics Publicly Available Download PDF	345
11. Taxonomy, Partonomy, and Ontology Publicly Available Download PDF	401
Index of Names Publicly Available Download PDF	464
Index of Subjects Publicly Available Download PDF	468
Picture Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	475

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 475
Illustrations
- Other: Zahlr. Abb.
Keywords: Medizin; Philosophie; medizinische Informatik

eBook

Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110321364

Paperback

Published: March 15, 2008
ISBN: 9783110321050