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Philosophy of medicine / Alex Broadbent.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Broadbent, Alex, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Medicine.
- Medical ethics.
- Philosophy, Medical.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Medical Subjects:
- Philosophy, Medical.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 274 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- 'Philosophy of Medicine' provides a fresh and comprehensive treatment of the topic. It offers a novel theory of the nature of medicine, and proposes a new attitude to medicine, aimed at improving the quality of debates between medical traditions (including alternatives) and facilitating medicine's decolonization.
- Contents:
- Varieties of medicine
- The goals of medicine
- The business of medicine
- Health and disease
- Evidence-based medicine
- Medical nihilism
- Medical cosmopolitanism
- Alternatives and medical dissidence
- Decolonizing medicine.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.5
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-061216-9
- 0-19-061217-7
- 0-19-061215-0
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