Medicine & philosophy : a twenty-first century introduction /

Medicine & philosophy : a twenty-first century introduction /

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Author / Creator:Johansson, Ingvar.
Imprint:Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (iv, 475 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Medicine -- Philosophy.
Medical ethics.
Science -- Ethics.
Philosophy.
Science.
Science -- ethics.
Medicine.
Philosophy.
Science.
Medical ethics.
Medicine -- Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Science.
Electronic book.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12661989
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Varying Form of Title:Medicine and philosophy
Other authors / contributors:Lynöe, Niels.
ISBN:9783110321364
311032136X
3938793902
9783938793909
9783938793909
9783110321050
311032105X
9783110321050
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Open Access
Summary:This textbook introduces the reader to basic problems in the philosophy of science and ethics, mainly by means of examples from medicine. It is based on the conviction that philosophy, medical science, medical informatics, and medical ethics are overlapping disciplines. It claims that the philosophical lessons to learn from the twentieth century are not that nature is a 'social construction' and that 'anything goes' with respect to methodological and moral rules. Instead, it claims that there is scientific knowledge, but that it is never completely secure; that there are norms, but that they a.
Other form:Print version: Johansson, Ingvar. Medicine & Philosophy : A Twenty-First Century Introduction. Berlin : De Gruyter, ©2008 9783110321050

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