Medicine & philosophy : a twenty-first century introduction /

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Author / Creator:Johansson, Ingvar.
Imprint:Frankfurt ; New Brunswick [N.J.] : Ontos Verlag ; Piscataway, NJ : Transaction Books [distributor], 2008.
Description:iv, 475 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7694264
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Varying Form of Title:Medicine and philosophy
Other authors / contributors:Lynöe, Niels.
ISBN:9783938793909 (pbk. : alk. paper)
3938793902 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Science, morals, and philosophy
  • How and why does science develop?
  • What is a scientific fact?
  • What does scientific argumentation look like?
  • Knowing how and knowing that
  • The clinical medical paradigm
  • Placebo and nocebo phenomena
  • Pluralism and medical science
  • Medicine and ethics
  • Medical research ethics
  • Taxonomy, partonomy, and ontology.