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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...

This is a comprehensive collection of original essays by leading thinkers exploring the newly emerging interdisciplinary field of philosophy of psychiatry. The authors aim to define this exciting field and highlight the philosophical assumptions and problems underlying...

This is the first book to analyse and systematise all the general ideas of medicine, especially the philosophical ones, which are usually overlooked. Instead of focusing on one or two points - usually disease and clinical research - this book analyses...

What 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...