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The book is aimed at postgraduate students and anyone intending to conduct research in the sociology of health and medicine. The content and organisation of this book is intended to differentiate it from other sociology of medicine textbooks, maintaining...

The Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated the need for a new perspective on health and healthcare. This book offers a philosophical critique of medicine as an applied science, but more positively emphasises the social causes of disease and argues for greater equality in the distribution of...

This is the first comprehensive, multi-author textbook in the philosophy of medicine, covering the conceptual problems of many important social, political and ethical issues in health care. It introduces and develops over 70 themes, concepts and issues in this...

One of America's leading doctors reveals how artificial intelligence will empower doctors and revolutionise patient care Medicine has become inhuman and this has had disastrous consequences. The doctor-patient relationship - the heart of medicine - is broken,...

This volume covers a wide range of conceptual, epistemological and methodological issues in the philosophy of science that have arisen from reflection on medical science and practice. Several chapters discuss such general meta-scientific concepts as discovery, reduction,...

The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practised at very different times, and the evolution of ethics that has a huge impact on healthcare As a practising physician and long-time member of his hospital's ethics committee, Dr Barron Lerner thought he had heard...

This work brings together previously published essays by Philip van der Eijk on the close links that existed between medicine and philosophy in antiquity. Medical authors such as the writers of Hippocrates, Diocles, Galen, Soranus and Caelius Aurelianus have elaborated...

In When My Times Comes Diane Rehm, through interviews with terminally ill patients and their loved ones, as well as with doctors, ethicists, religious leaders, Rehm gives voice to a wide range of people who are personally connected to the realities of medicine. With characteristic ...

This book examines currently unquestioned methods in medicine, such as 'evidence-based medicine', from the perspective of humanism and the philosophy of medicine. The book discusses issues related to medical treatment and moral attitudes and identifies the strongest arguments. These arguments ...

The achievements of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these 19th century gynaecologists performed experimental caesarean sections and obstetric fistula repairs,...

This multidisciplinary collection explores the three key concepts underlying psychiatry - explanation, phenomenology and nosology - and their continuing relevance in the age of neuroimaging and genetic analysis. Kenneth S. Kendler's introduction introduces the philosophical ...

Currently, ageing is often seen as a problem to be solved and death as a harsh reality to be masked. In part, the cultural confusion is rooted in an inadequate conception of the human person, which is based on the idea of absolute...

In underserved areas of Canada, communities themselves can be one of the strongest parts of the health care team. Dr. Gretchen Roedde shows the important role communities play in responding to illness, birth and death, making them...

Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not only in ethical issues, but also in questions of mind, identity, values and will. This has become more important as we have witnessed the growth and power of the pharmaceutical industry, to which...

Each year in the United States, 12 per cent of all births are premature, 5 per cent of all babies need breathing assistance at birth and 3 per cent of newborns are born with at least one major malformation. Many of these babies are...