Care and cure : an introduction to philosophy of medicine /

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Author / Creator:Stegenga, Jacob, author.
Imprint:Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
©2018
Description:xiii, 248 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11740419
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ISBN:9780226590813
022659081X
9780226595030
022659503X
9780226595177
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Concepts. Health ; Disease ; Death
  • Models and kinds. Causation and kinds ; Holism and reductionism ; Controversial diseases
  • Evidence and inference. Evidence in medicine ; Objectivity and the social structure of science ; Inference ; Effectiveness, skepticism, and alternatives ; Diagnosis and screening
  • Values and policy. Psychiatry: care or control? ; Policy ; Public health.