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An A-Z of medical philosophy. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2013 Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) was a one man social revolution. He was a lawyer who sought to reform the penal code. He designed the first high surveillance jail. He founded University College London. He drafted the first new South American constitutions for his friend Simon Bolivar.
Misselbrook D.
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An A-Z of medical philosophy: S is for Science. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2014 As medics we get perilously close to equating science with truth. But science and truth seemed to drift apart in the 20th century. We like to think that science proves things. This is a mistake. In the 1930s Karl Popper rejected arguments that ‘pass from single statements … such as the results of observations or experiments, to universal statements ...
Misselbrook D.
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An A-Z of medical philosophy: O is for ontology. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2014 OK, every tribe likes to reserve some language for its own use and polish up a few long words to keep the barbarians at bay. Philosophers are no different, but not as bad as medics. ‘Ontology’ is the study of what types or categories of things might reasonably be thought to exist in the world itself as opposed to just our imagined ways of thinking ...
Misselbrook D.
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An A-Z of medical philosophy. Gender and ethics. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2013 Surely gender has nothing to do with morality? Well, perhaps it just might. All approaches to ethics make assumptions about what constitutes human nature and the human good. A conventional description of a mature ethical person would value ideals such as autonomy, rationality, and justice. The feminist ethicist Carol Gilligan in her book In a Different
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An A-Z of medical philosophy: Z is for Zeno. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2015 Zeno’s paradox is one of the best known tricks of ancient philosophy. Suppose Achilles wishes to overtake a tortoise. He quickly sprints to where the tortoise was walking when he set out. But by now the tortoise has moved on a bit. Never mind, it will only take a moment for Achilles to get to where the tortoise is now — but hang on, by then ...
Misselbrook D.
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An A-Z of medical philosophy: V is for Values. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2014 Any properly conceived notion of health care will relate not only to facts (for example, I am breathing) but also to values (for example, it’s good to be alive). In our pluralistic world we have become scared of talking about our values and sought to retreat into facts, but this will not do. Medicine depends completely on judgements such as ‘state A is
Misselbrook D.
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An A–Z of medical philosophy : Justice [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2013 Allocation of scarce healthcare resources is a hot issue. We all believe resources should be distributed justly, the trouble is no one seems quite sure what is just. Should resources be distributed according to need, according to a legal or regulatory entitlement or according to what a person has earned? And who should decide?
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Medical philosophy? Smart thinking for doctors. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2013 None of us can grasp our world.1 There are over 1011 stars in our galaxy, and about 1079 protons in the universe. Any consideration of such totalities is impossible for the mind to grasp, even though, by a strange coincidence, your brain contains 1011 neurones. I cannot grasp the reality of the billions of subatomic particles in the coffee mug in front
Misselbrook D.
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Medical humanities and philosophy of medicine [PDF]
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2007 Over the past 30 years — starting in the United States — an interest in ‘medical humanities’ has emerged. In the same period modern ‘philosophy of medicine’ developed. Although the medical humanities are sometimes presented under the flag of medical philosophy, there are good reasons to consider these fields separately.
Dekkers, W.J.M., Gordijn, B.
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An Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science [PDF]
, 2005 Mode of access: Internet.
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