Medical Philosophy
Conceptual Issues in Medicine
Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Alternative & Holistic Medicine, Alternative Medicine
| Author: | Mario Bunge | ISBN: | 9789814508964 |
| Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing Company | Publication: | May 30, 2013 |
| Imprint: | WSPC | Language: | English |
| Author: | Mario Bunge |
| ISBN: | 9789814508964 |
| Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing Company |
| Publication: | May 30, 2013 |
| Imprint: | WSPC |
| Language: | English |
This is the first book that analyzes and systematizes all the general ideas of medicine, in particular the philosophical ones, which are usually tacit. Instead of focusing on one or two points — typically disease and clinical trial — this book examines all the salient aspects of biomedical research and practice: the nature of disease; the logic of diagnosis; the discovery and design of drugs; the design of lab and clinical trials; the crafting of therapies and design of protocols; the moral duties and rights of physicians and patients; the distinctive features of scientific medicine and of medical quackery; the unique combination of basic and translational research; the place of physicians and nurses in society; the task of medical sociology; and the need for universal medical coverage. Health care workers, medicine buffs, and philosophers will find this thought-provoking book highly useful in their line of work and research.
Contents:
- Traditional Medicines
- Modern Medicine
- Disease
- Diagnosis
- Drug
- Trial
- Therapy
- Prevention
- Iatroethics
- Science or Technology, Craft or Service?
Readership: Students, professional biomedical researchers, practicing physicians, and philosophers.
Key Features:
- The book is addressed not only to the health care community but also to the individuals working in the medical humanities, as well as to the many medicine buffs. This is why it is written at several levels of sophistication; it alternates between recent discoveries and ancient beliefs, and is full of examples from both the history of medicine and recent issues of medical journals
- The author, #43 in the Science Hall of Fame of the AAAS and the holder of 19 honorary doctorates and four honorary professorships, is a prolific scientist and scholar, who has lectured in five different languages and five continents, collaborated with dozens of scientists and philosophers, and published more than 80 books and 400 papers on a large variety of subjects, from physics to biology, psychology and social science, as well as on the theory of knowledge, ontology, ethics, the philosophies of various sciences and technologies, and pseudoscience
This is the first book that analyzes and systematizes all the general ideas of medicine, in particular the philosophical ones, which are usually tacit. Instead of focusing on one or two points — typically disease and clinical trial — this book examines all the salient aspects of biomedical research and practice: the nature of disease; the logic of diagnosis; the discovery and design of drugs; the design of lab and clinical trials; the crafting of therapies and design of protocols; the moral duties and rights of physicians and patients; the distinctive features of scientific medicine and of medical quackery; the unique combination of basic and translational research; the place of physicians and nurses in society; the task of medical sociology; and the need for universal medical coverage. Health care workers, medicine buffs, and philosophers will find this thought-provoking book highly useful in their line of work and research.
Contents:
- Traditional Medicines
- Modern Medicine
- Disease
- Diagnosis
- Drug
- Trial
- Therapy
- Prevention
- Iatroethics
- Science or Technology, Craft or Service?
Readership: Students, professional biomedical researchers, practicing physicians, and philosophers.
Key Features:
- The book is addressed not only to the health care community but also to the individuals working in the medical humanities, as well as to the many medicine buffs. This is why it is written at several levels of sophistication; it alternates between recent discoveries and ancient beliefs, and is full of examples from both the history of medicine and recent issues of medical journals
- The author, #43 in the Science Hall of Fame of the AAAS and the holder of 19 honorary doctorates and four honorary professorships, is a prolific scientist and scholar, who has lectured in five different languages and five continents, collaborated with dozens of scientists and philosophers, and published more than 80 books and 400 papers on a large variety of subjects, from physics to biology, psychology and social science, as well as on the theory of knowledge, ontology, ethics, the philosophies of various sciences and technologies, and pseudoscience
