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Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Mental Disorders as Genuine Medical Conditions
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    Chapter 2 On Concepts of Positive Health
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    Chapter 3 Disability as Medical and as Social Category
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    Chapter 4 Illness and Its Experience: The Patient Perspective
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    Chapter 5 Goals of Medicine
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    Chapter 6 Nursing as Caring
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    Chapter 7 Subjective and Objective Accounts of Well-Being and Quality of Life
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    Chapter 8 Pain as a Subjective and Objective Phenomenon
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    Chapter 9 Normality as Convention and as Scientific Fact
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    Chapter 10 How Can Aging Be Thought of as Anything Other Than a Disease?
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    Chapter 11 Death as Biological Category
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    Chapter 12 Suicide
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    Chapter 13 Genetic Information in Medicine: Its Generation, Significance, and Use
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    Chapter 15 Mind-Brain Dualism and Its Place in Mental Health Care
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    Chapter 16 Children Are Not Small Adults: Significance of Biological and Cognitive Development in Medical Practice
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    Chapter 18 Extending Human Life as an Aim of Medicine
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    Chapter 19 Conceptions of Health and Disease in Plants and Animals
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    Chapter 20 Trust and Mistrust Between Patients and Doctors
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    Chapter 21 Holism in Health Care: Patient as Person
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    Chapter 22 Patients’ Responsibility for Their Health
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    Chapter 23 Delusions: A Project in Understanding
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    Chapter 24 Impairments of Personal Freedom in Mental Disorders
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    Chapter 25 Hope, Despair, and Other Strategies of Patients
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    Chapter 26 Dignity of the Patient
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    Chapter 27 Spirituality in Health Care
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    Chapter 28 Mental Capacity of Adult Patients in Health Care
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    Chapter 30 Professionalism in Health Care
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    Chapter 31 Applying Medical Knowledge: Diagnosing Disease
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    Chapter 32 Philosophical Issues in Nanomedicine
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    Chapter 33 Philosophy of Sports Medicine
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    Chapter 34 Meaning and Use of Placebo: Philosophical Considerations
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    Chapter 35 Medicine as Art and Science
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    Chapter 38 Biomedical Reductionist, Humanist, and Biopsychosocial Models in Medicine
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    Chapter 39 Statistical Generalizations in Epidemiology: Philosophical Analysis
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    Chapter 39 Statistical Generalizations in Epidemiology: Philosophical Analysis
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    Chapter 40 Evidence-Based Medicine in Theory and Practice: Epistemological and Normative Issues
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    Chapter 41 Psychoanalysis as Science
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    Chapter 42 Synthetic Biology and Its Envisioned Significance for Modern Medicine
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    Chapter 44 Medical Theory and Its Notions of Definition and Explanation
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    Chapter 44 Medical Theory and Its Notions of Definition and Explanation
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    Chapter 45 Randomized Trials and Observational Studies: The Current Philosophical Controversy
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    Chapter 46 Causation and Correlation in Medical Science: Theoretical Problems
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    Chapter 47 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Its Relationship to Western Medicine
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    Chapter 48 WHO’s Definition of Health: Philosophical Analysis
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    Chapter 49 Health as Notion in Public Health
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    Chapter 50 Identity Disorders: Philosophical Problems
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    Chapter 52 Changing Human Nature. The Ethical Challenge of Biotechnological Interventions on Humans
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    Chapter 53 Health Promotion in Public Health: Philosophical Analysis
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    Chapter 56 Psychopathy: Morally Incapacitated Persons
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    Chapter 58 Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics
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    Chapter 59 Curing and Healing: Two Goals of Medicine
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    Chapter 60 Enhancing Human Abilities and Characteristics Beyond Normality
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    Chapter 62 Human Organisms from an Evolutionary Perspective: Its Significance for Medicine
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    Chapter 63 Suffering: Harm to Bodies, Minds, and Persons
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    Chapter 64 Memory, Identity and Dementia
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    Chapter 66 The Living Body and the Lived Body in the Clinical Encounter: How Does the Body Shape Ethical Practice
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    Chapter 67 Dying and the End of Life
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    Chapter 68 Skilled Know-How, Virtuosity, and Expertise in Clinical Practice
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    Chapter 69 Technology and Dehumanization of Medicine
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    Chapter 71 Personalized Medicine: Conceptual, Ethical, and Empirical Challenges
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    Chapter 72 Social Determinants of Health
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    Chapter 73 Cultural Influences on Medical Knowledge
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    Chapter 73 Cultural Influences on Medical Knowledge
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    Chapter 74 Medicalization of Social Problems
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    Chapter 75 Disease as Scientific and as Value-Laden Concept
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    Chapter 76 Philosophical Implications of Changes in the Classification of Mental Disorders in DSM-5
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    Chapter 77 Personality Disorder: Philosophical Problems
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    Chapter 78 Human Nature as Normative Concept: Relevance for Health Care
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    Chapter 80 “Lives at Risk” Study: Philosophical and Ethical Implications of Using Narrative Inquiry in Health Services Research
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    Chapter 80 “Lives at Risk” Study: Philosophical and Ethical Implications of Using Narrative Inquiry in Health Services Research
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    Chapter 81 Conceptualization of Genetic Disease
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    Chapter 82 Hippocrates and the Hippocratic Tradition: Impact on Development of Medical Knowledge and Practice?
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Title
Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-8706-2
ISBNs
978-9-40-178706-2
Editors

Thomas Schramme, Steven Edwards

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Country Count As %
Mexico 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Unknown 86 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 19%
Student > Master 17 19%
Other 8 9%
Student > Bachelor 5 6%
Researcher 5 6%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 25 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 13 15%
Social Sciences 12 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 13%
Psychology 7 8%
Philosophy 6 7%
Other 14 16%
Unknown 25 28%