What is disease? /

In What is Disease?, renowned philosophers and medical ethicists survey and elucidate the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with an extensive reexamination of his seminal definition of disease as a value-free scientific concept. In responding to all those...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Humber, James M., Almeder, Robert F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, 1997.
Colección:Biomedical ethics reviews ; 1997.
Temas:
Pathology > Philosophy.
Medicine > Philosophy.
Philosophy, Medical
Disease > psychology
Pathologie > Philosophie.
Médecine > Philosophie.
Medicine > Philosophy
Pathology > Philosophy
Medizinische Ethik
Ziekte.
Filosofische aspecten.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rebuttal on health / Christopher Boorse
  • Defining disease : the question of sexual orientation / Michael Ruse
  • Malady / K. Danner Clouser, Charles M. Culver, and Bernard Gert
  • Toward a pragmatic theory of disease / George J. Agich
  • Defining disease : praxis makes perfect / John D. Banja
  • Disease : definition and objectivity / Frederick Kaufman
  • Disease and subjectivity / Stan van Hoof
  • Concept of disease in alternative medicine / Mark B. Woodhouse.

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