Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics A Twenty-Year Retrospective and Critical Appraisal

Papers presented at a symposium on philosophy and medicine at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1974 were published in the inaugural volume of this series. To help celebrate more than 20 years of extraordinary success with the series, another sympo...

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Other Authors: Carson, Ronald A. (Editor), Burns, C.R. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1997, 1997
Edition:1st ed. 1997
Series:Philosophy and Medicine
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • History and Theory
  • Bioethics as an Interdisciplinary Enterprise: Where Does Ethics Fit in the Mosaic of Disciplines?
  • Humanities in the Service of Medicine: Three Models
  • The Primacy of Practice: Medicine and Postmodernism
  • What can the Epistemologists Learn from the Endocrinologists? Or is the Philosophy of Medicine Based on a Mistake?
  • Praxis as a Keystone for the Philosophy and Professional Ethics of Medicine: The Need for an Arch-Support: Commentary on Toulmin and Wartofsky
  • Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine Reconsidered
  • Form Synthesis and System to Morals and Procedure: The Development of Philosophy of Medicine
  • The Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics: Commentary on Ten Have and Engelhardt
  • Practice and Theory
  • Bioethics in Social Context
  • The Week of November Seventh: Bioethics as a Practice
  • Toward A Humanist Bioethics: Commentary on Churchill and Andre
  • Medical Ethics as Reflective Practice
  • From Principles to Reflective Practice or Narrative Ethics? Commentary on Carson
  • Hedgehogs and Hermaphrodites: Toward a More Anthropological Bioethics
  • An Anthropological Bioethics: Hermeneutical or Critical? Commentary on Elliott
  • Medicine’s Challenge to Relativism: The Case of Female Genital Mutilation
  • “We be of One Blood, You and I”: Commentary on Kopelman
  • Must Patients Suffer?
  • Doctors and Their Suffering Patients: Commentary on Campbell
  • Policy
  • Whatever Happened to Research Ethics?
  • What’s Happening in Reserach Ethics? Commentary on Brody
  • At the Intersection of Medicine, Law, Economics, and Ethics: Bioethics and the Art of Intellectual Cross-Dressing
  • Intellectual Cross-Dressing: An Eccentricity or A practical Necessity? Commentary on Morreim