The Growth of Medical Knowledge
The growth of knowledge and its effects on the practice of medicine have been issues of philosophical and ethical interest for several decades and will remain so for many years to come. The outline of the present volume was conceived nearly three years ago. In 1987, a conference on this theme was he...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1990, 1990
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1990 |
| Series: | Philosophy and Medicine
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Section I / Medicine, History, and Culture
- Knowledge and Practice in European Medicine: The Case of Infectious Diseases
- Frames of Reference and the Growth of Medical Knowledge: L.Fleck and M.Foucault
- Medical Knowledge and Medical Action: Competing visions
- Section II / Philosophy of Science and the Growth of Medical Knowledge
- Function and Value of Medical Knowledge in Modern Diseases
- The Growth of Medical Knowledge: An Epistemological Exploration
- The Development of Population Research on Causes of Death: Growth of Knowledge or Accumulation of Data?
- Comments on Wulff’s, Thung’s, and Lindahl’s Essays on The Growth of Medical Knowledge
- Section III / Image of Man and the Growth of Medical Knowledge
- Medicine, Anthropology, and the Human Body
- Invulnerability and Medicine’s “Promise” of Immortality: Changing Images of the Human Body During the Growth of Medical Knowledge
- Values and the Growth of Medical Knowledge
- Notes on Contributors