Philosophy of Medicine: An Introduction

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...

Philosophy of Medicine

The philosophy of medicine poses two fundamental questions about medicine: what is it and what should we think about it? The philosophy of medicine has itself developed in response to developments in the philosophy of science, particularly in relation to epistemology, enabling it to bring...