Evaluation and Explanation in the Biomedical Sciences: Proceedings of the First Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Galves

by Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medi and H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

Book Overview

This volume inaugurates a series concerning philosophy and medicine. There are few, if any, areas of social concern so pervasive as medicine and yet as underexamined by philosophy. But the claim to precedence of the Proceedings of the First Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philos- ophy and Medicine must be qualified. Claims to be "first" are notorious in the history of scientific as well as humanistic investigation and the claim that the First Trans-Disciplinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401017719
• ISBN13: 9789401017718
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"