This book deals with the essential philosophical/ethical dimension
that concerns the ends and goods entrusted to medicine. It shows
that medicine cannot be reduced to its scientific and technical
aspects and that the constitutive philosophical aspects of medicine
presently are in a state of crisis.
Medicine, besides being a scientifically based art of diagnosing
and curing infirmities of many kinds, also possesses an essential
philosophical and ethical dimension. It turns into anti-medicine if
it no longer stands in the service of those goods and ends that are
entrusted to it. Their nature is in no way known by natural science
but can be clarified by philosophy. Consequently, medicine suffers
from philosophical diseases of different degrees of gravity if its
theory and practice are based on errors about its proper ends. The
cure from the life-threatening philosophical diseases of medicine
lies in a critique of philosophical mistakes that influence the
theory and practice of medicine and in an understanding and
practical implementation of those ethically relevant goods that
constitute its true ends. At a time when these goods are by no
means universally recognized or embodied in laws of medicine, some
basic philosophical understanding of them and of the foundations of
medical ethics is urgently required. The purpose of this volume is
to provide this largely neglected part of general and medical
education.
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