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

SUNY series in Constructive Postmodern Thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Philosophy.

Medicine.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The End of Modern Medicine chronicles the work of a small, influential band of medical theorists and clinicians who over the past decade have sought to redress the physical fundamentalism of the biomedical model that shaped their professional training. Laurence Foss challenges the prevailing medical model whereby mind and body are essentially separated, and charts a new "psychobiological" course. Asking fresh questions, raising new possibilities, probing long-established preconceptions, Foss presents a radically reconfigured medical model. This model accounts for the full range of findings in the experimental literature, most notably those surfacing over the past quarter century in psychophysiological studies which show a correlation between psychosocial variables and disease susceptibility that are in line with what more basic sciences tell us about the behavior of material systems and the nature of scientific explanation. Foss also critically analyzes the regulative ideals of today's medical research community and puts modern science itself, from which these ideals derive, under a microscope.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Medical Ontology, the Post-Modern Challenge, and its Historical Roots

Medical Ontology

The Question Never Asked

The Organic Solution

The Motive Faculty of the Soul

Pascal’s Question

The Path Not Taken

A Response: The Beginnings

Sciences of Complexity

Post-Cartesian thought World

National Institute of Warts and All

The Ghost in the Machine

The Levels Of Argument

Founding Myth

The Shadow of Subjectivity

The Anxious Heart

Late Night Thoughts While Listening to Mahler

Complementary Medicine

The Seeds of a New Revolution

For Want of a Vocabulary

The Birth of Psychobiology

Paradigm Shift

The Placebo Meta-Effect and Infomedical Science

Nature as Self-Referential and Biocultural Medicine

Revolutionizing the Foundations: Modern Science under a Microscope

The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science

The Primordial Fireball, a Work in Progress?

A Successor Scientific Medical Model

Humanizing Medical Science: The Systems Loop

Subjectivity and the Messengers of Information

Epilog

Notes

References

Index

Note on Supporting Center

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9780791489802

0791489809

9780585450278

0585450277

OCLC:

61367499