Care and Cure - An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine

Informationen zum Autor Jacob Stegenga is a university lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Medical Nihilism . Klappentext The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferences, and policies that are often complicated and controversial. Bringing much-needed clarity to the interplay of these diverse problems, Jacob Stegenga describes the core philosophical controversies underlying medicine in this unrivaled introduction to the field. The fourteen chapters in Care and Cure present and discuss conceptual, metaphysical, epistemological, and political questions that arise in medicine, buttressed with lively illustrative examples ranging from debates over the true nature of disease to the effectiveness of medical interventions and homeopathy. Poised to be the standard sourcebook for anyone seeking a comprehensive overview of the canonical concepts, current state, and cutting edge of this vital field, this concise introduction will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars of medicine and philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Jacob Stegenga
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2018
• EAN: 9780226595030
• ISBN: 978-0-226-59503-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / General, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy