The end of modern medicine : biomedical science under a microscope / Laurence Foss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foss, Laurence.

Series:

SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Philosophy.

Medicine.

Medical ethics.

Philosophy, Medical.

Holistic Health.

Psychosomatic Medicine.

Ethics, Medical.

Medical Subjects:

Philosophy, Medical.

Holistic Health.

Psychosomatic Medicine.

Ethics, Medical.

Physical Description:

xxi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]

Contents:

Part 1 Medical Ontology, the Post-Modern Challenge, and Its Historical Roots

1. Medical Ontology 19

2. The Question Never Asked 31

3. The Organic Solution 37

4. The Motive Faculty of the Soul 41

5. Pascal's Question 51

6. The Path Not Taken 57

Part 2 A Response: The Beginnings

7. Sciences of Complexity 65

8. Post-Cartesian Thought World 73

9. National Institute of Warts and All 79

10. The Ghost in the Machine 83

Part 3 The Levels of Argument

11. Founding Myth 91

12. The Shadow of Subjectivity 99

13. The Anxious Heart 107

14. Late Night Thoughts While Listening to Mahler 113

15. Complementary Medicine 125

Part 4 The Seeds of a New Revolution

16. For Want of a Vocabulary 141

17. The Birth of Psychobiology 147

18. Paradigm Shift 155

19. The Placebo Meta-Effect and Infomedical Science 163

20. Nature as Self-Referential and Biocultural Medicine 179

Part 5 Revolutionizing the Foundations: Modern Science under a Microscope

21. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science 201

22. The Primordial Fireball, a Work in Progress? 225

Part 6 A Successor Scientific Medical Model

23. Humanizing Medical Science: The Systems Loop 251

24. Subjectivity and the Messengers of Information 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-321) and index.

ISBN:

0791451291

0791451305

OCLC:

46731203