Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine

1. Organisms

   1. Human Organisms from an Evolutionary Perspective: Its Significance for Medicine

      • Mahesh Ananth

      Pages 243-271

   2. Human Nature as Normative Concept: Relevance for Health Care

      • Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco O.P.

      Pages 273-285

   3. Conceptions of Health and Disease in Plants and Animals

      • Henrik Lerner

      Pages 287-301

   4. Genetic Information in Medicine: Its Generation, Significance, and Use

      • Angus Clarke

      Pages 303-323

   5. Conceptualization of Genetic Disease

      • Catherine Dekeuwer

      Pages 325-343

   6. Mind-Brain Dualism and Its Place in Mental Health Care

      • Eric Matthews

      Pages 345-357

   7. Memory, Identity and Dementia

      • Simon Walker, John McMillan

      Pages 359-370

   8. Children Are Not Small Adults: Significance of Biological and Cognitive Development in Medical Practice

      • Vic Larcher

      Pages 371-393

   9. Extending Human Life as an Aim of Medicine

      • Søren Holm

      Pages 395-407

2. Patients

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 409-409

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   2. Holism in Health Care: Patient as Person

      • Simon Woods

      Pages 411-427

   3. Hope, Despair, and Other Strategies of Patients

      • Kenneth Boyd

      Pages 429-440

   4. Dignity of the Patient

      • Andrew Edgar, Lennart Nordenfelt

      Pages 441-462

   5. The Living Body and the Lived Body in the Clinical Encounter: How Does the Body Shape Ethical Practice

      • Dorothée Legrand

      Pages 463-486

   6. Trust and Mistrust Between Patients and Doctors

      • John Saunders

      Pages 487-502

   7. Spirituality in Health Care

      • John Paley

      Pages 503-527

   8. Dying and the End of Life

      • James Stacey Taylor

      Pages 529-538

   9. “Lives at Risk” Study: Philosophical and Ethical Implications of Using Narrative Inquiry in Health Services Research

      • Ashrafunnesa Khanom, Sarah Wright, Marcus Doel, Melanie Storey, Clare Clement, Frances Rapport

      Pages 539-556

   10. Delusions: A Project in Understanding

       • KWM Fulford, Tim Thornton

       Pages 557-576

   11. Impairments of Personal Freedom in Mental Disorders

       • Jann E. Schlimme

       Pages 577-595

This is the first wide-ranging, multi-authored handbook in the field of philosophy of medicine, covering the underlying conceptual issues of many important social, political and ethical issues in health care. It introduces and develops over 70 topics, concepts, and issues in the field. It is written by distinguished specialists from multiple disciplines, including philosophy, health sciences, nursing, sociology, political theory, and medicine. Many difficult social and ethical issues in health care are based on conceptual problems, most prominently on the definitions of health and disease, or on epistemological issues regarding causality or diagnosis. Philosophy is the discipline that deals with such conceptual, metaphysical, epistemological, methodological, and axiological matters. This handbook covers all the central concepts in medicine, such as ageing, death, disease, mental disorder, and well-being. It is an invaluable source for laypeople, academics with an interest in medicine, and health care specialists who want be informed and up to date with the relevant discussions. The text also advances these debates and will set the agenda for years to come.

• Bioethics
• Disease
• Health
• Medicine
• Philosophy
• basic aspects of health care
• concepts in health care
• concepts in medicine
• foundations of medicine
• ideas in medicine
• medical terminology
• notions in health care
• philosophical aspects of health care
• philosophical issues in medicine
• philosophy and medicine
• philosophy of medicine
• theoretical issues in health care
• theories of medicine

“Editors Thomas Schramme and Steven Edwards have assembled the Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine with the understanding that philosophy of medicine has indeed become an established field of study … . the Springer Handbook succeeds as a comprehensive resource in contemporary philosophy of medicine and should be available in all major libraries supporting education and research in health care and philosophy of medicine and science.” (Patrick Daly, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, November, 2017)

• Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  Thomas Schramme

• Philosophy, History and Law, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

  Steven Edwards

Thomas Schramme is Professor in the Department of Philosophy of University of Hamburg, Germany. Dr. Schramme has nearly 2 decades of teaching and research experience in the field of philosophy of medicine. He has held several fellowships and holds Editorial Board memberships in a number of prestigious journals. Dr. Schramme has to his credit a large number of publications on philosophy of medicine and bioethics.

Steven Edwards is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, History & Law in Swansea University, UK. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Edwards has focused mainly on ethical and philosophical issues in healthcare, specifically the philosophy and ethics of nursing and the philosophy of disability. He is a member of important ethics committees in related fields. Dr. Edwards has to his credit a good number of publications on philosophy of medicine and bioethics.

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