Science, medicine, and the aims of inquiry : a philosophical analysis / Somogy Varga, Aarhus Universitet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varga, Somogy, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Philosophy.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 232 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Amid criticism of medicine's scientific rigor and patient care, this book offers a philosophical examination of the nature and aims of medicine, and new perspectives on how these challenges can be addressed. It offers input for rethinking the agenda of medical research, healthcare delivery, and the education of healthcare personnel"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Imprints page

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Medicine at the Crossroads

I.1 The Road to Medicine's ''Golden Age''

I.2 The Criticism of Medicine and the ''Age of Disappointment''

I.3 The Aims of the Book

I.4 The Structure of the Book

I.5 Final Remarks

Chapter 1 Challenges to Medicine at the End of Its ''Golden Age''

1.1 How Medicine Became the Patient

1.2 Skepticism

1.3 Overmedicalization

1.4 Objectification

1.5 The Character of the Criticism

1.6 The Use of the Criticism

1.7 Conclusion

Chapter 2 Toward a Normative Philosophy of Medicine

2.1 Introduction: Philosophy of Medicine

2.2 Normative Philosophy of Science

2.3 Normative Philosophy of Medicine

2.4 Three Objections to Continuity

2.5 Conclusion

Chapter 3 Science and Medicine: The Systematicity Thesis

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Problems with Demarcation

3.3 The Deflated Approach

3.4 Incompleteness and Systematicity

3.5 Medicine and Systematicity

3.6 Systematicity and Demarcation

3.7 Limitations

3.8 The Science versus Scientific Argument

3.9 Conclusion

Chapter 4 Inquiry in Medical Science: The Understanding Thesis

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Aim and Constitutive Aim

4.3 Truth, Knowledge, and Understanding

4.4 Understanding as the Aim of Inquiry

4.5 Progress: Knowledge or Understanding?

4.6 A Difference in Kind?

4.7 Conclusion

Chapter 5 Understanding in Medicine

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Knowledge and Types of Understanding

5.3 Grasping Explanations

5.4 Objectual Understanding

5.5 Understanding Disease

5.6 Clinical Understanding

5.7 Conclusion

Chapter 6 The Aim of Medicine I: The Autonomy Thesis

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Cure and Treatment

6.3 Medicine Is Sanocentric, but Not Necessarily Pathocentric

6.4 Health: Two Puzzles

6.5 Positive Health and Well-Being

6.6 Sanocentricity, Health, and Autonomy

6.7 The Autonomy Thesis and the Overinclusiveness Objection

6.8 The Autonomy Thesis and the Second Overinclusiveness Objection

6.9 Conclusion

Chapter 7 The Aim of Medicine II: Current Alternatives

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Edmund Pellegrino

7.3 Alex Broadbent

7.4 The Hastings Center Report

7.5 Bengt Brülde

7.6 Howard Brody and Franklin G. Miller

7.7 Christopher Boorse

7.8 Conclusion

Chapter 8 Rethinking the Challenges: The Moderate Position

8.1 Returning to the Criticism

8.2 Skepticism, Systematicity, and Well-Orderedness

8.3 Overmedicalization

8.4 Objectification

8.5 Conclusion

Conclusion: Disorientation and the ''Greatest Benefit to Mankind''

C.1 ''Doom and Gloom''?

C.2 The Main Points

C.3 The Moderate Position and the ''Greatest Benefit to Mankind''

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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