Care and Cure: An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine

by Jacob Stegenga

Book Overview

The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferences, and policies that are often complicated and controversial. Bringing much-needed clarity to the interplay of these diverse problems, Jacob Stegenga describes the core philosophical controversies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022659503X
• ISBN13: 9780226595030
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"