Medicine & Philosophy: A Twenty-First Century Introduction

by Ingvar Johansson and Niels Lynøe

Book Overview

This textbook introduces the reader to basic problems in the philosophy of science and ethics, mainly by means of examples from medicine. It is based on the conviction that philosophy, medical science, medical informatics, and medical ethics are overlapping disciplines. It claims that the philosophical lessons to learn from the twentieth century are not that nature is a 'social construction' and that 'anything goes' with respect to methodological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311032105X
• ISBN13: 9783110321050
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 475 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"