Over a period of a year, the symposium on clinical judgment has
taken shape as a volume devoted to the analysis of how knowledge
claims are framed in medicine and how choices of treatment are
made. We hope it will afford the reader, whether layman, physician
or philosopher, a useful perspective on the process of knowing what
occurs in medicine; and that the results of the dis cussions at the
Fifth Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine will lead to a better
understanding of how philosophy and medicine can usefully challenge
each other. As the interchange between physicians, philosophers,
nurses and psychologists recorded in the major papers, the
commentaries and the round table discussion shows, these issues are
truly interdisciplinary. In particular, they have shown that
members of the health care professions have much to learn about
themselves from philosophers as well as much of interest to engage
philosophers. By making the structure of medical reasoning more
apparent to its users, philosophers can show health care
practitioners how better to master clinical judgment and how better
to focus it towards the goods and values medicine wishes to pursue.
Becoming clearer about the process of knowing can in short teach us
how to know better and how to learn more efficiently. The result
can be more than (though it surely would be enough ) a powerful
intellectual insight into a major cultural endeavor, medicine."
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