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Philosophy of medicine

2017
What kind of knowledge is medical knowledge? Can medicine be explained scientifically? Is disease a scientific concept, or do explanations of disease depend on values? What is "evidence-based" medicine? Are advances in neuroscience bringing us closer to a scientific understanding of the mind?
R. Paul Thompson, Ross E.G. Upshur
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A PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1959
To the Editor:— The time-honored meaning of the word physician is under close scrutiny. We need an immediate and a long-range philosophy of medicine. The immediate needs must come from within the profession. There must be unity in principles, unity in action, and unity of dedication to the fundamental motivations and principles that facilitated the ...
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Philosophy of Medicine

2019
Philosophy of Medicine seeks to answer two questions: (1) what is medicine? and (2) what should we think of it? The first question is motivated by the observation that medicine has existed and continues to exist in many different forms in different times and places.
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Medicine, philosophy of

2018
The philosophy of medicine can be generally defined as encompassing those issues in epistemology, axiology, logic, methodology and metaphysics generated by or related to medicine. Issues have frequently focused on the nature of the practice of medicine, on concepts of health and disease, and on understanding the kind of knowledge that physicians employ
Kenneth F. Schaffner   +1 more
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