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Philosophy of Medicine - An Introduction (Paperback)
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Philosophy of Medicine - An Introduction (Paperback)
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What kind of knowledge is medical knowledge? Can medicine be
explained scientifically? Is disease a scientific concept, or do
explanations of disease depend on values? What is "evidence-based"
medicine? Are advances in neuroscience bringing us closer to a
scientific understanding of the mind? The nature of medicine raises
fundamental questions about explanation, causation, knowledge and
ontology - questions that are central to philosophy as well as
medicine. This book introduces the fundamental issues in philosophy
of medicine for those coming to the subject for the first time,
including: * understanding the physician-patient relationship: the
phenomenology of the medical encounter. * Models and theories in
biology and medicine: what role do theories play in medicine? Are
they similar to scientific theories? * Randomised controlled
trials: can scientific experiments be replicated in clinical
medicine? What are the philosophical criticisms levelled at RCTs? *
The concept of evidence in medical research: what do we mean by
"evidence-based medicine"? Should all medicine be based on
evidence? * Causation in medicine. * What do advances in
neuroscience reveal about the relationship between mind and body? *
Defining health and disease: are explanations of disease objective
or do they depend on values? * Evolutionary medicine: what is the
role of evolutionary biology in understanding medicine? Is it
relevant? Extensive use of empirical examples and case studies are
included throughout, including debates about smoking and cancer,
the use of placebos in randomised controlled trials, controversies
about PSA testing and research into the causes of HIV. This is an
indispensable introduction to those teaching philosophy of medicine
and philosophy of science.
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