Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry - Somogy Varga

Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry

A Philosophical Analysis

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Buch | Hardcover
244 Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-45001-0 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
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.
After its unparalleled rise and expansion over the past century, medicine is increasingly criticized both as a science and clinical practice for lacking scientific rigor, for contributing to overmedicalization, and for failing to offer patient-centered care. This criticism highlights serious challenges which indicate that the scope and societal role of medicine are likely to be altered in the 21st century. Somogy Varga's ground-breaking book offers a new perspective on the challenges, showing that they converge on fundamental philosophical questions about the nature and aim of medicine. Addressing these questions, Varga presents a philosophical examination of the norms and values constitutive of medicine and offers new perspectives on how to address the challenges that the criticism raises. His book will offer valuable input for rethinking the agenda of medical research, health care delivery, and the education of health care personnel.

Somogy Varga is Professor of Philosophy at Aarhus University, Director of the Center for Philosophy and the Health Sciences, and Visiting Research Professor at Ruhr University Bochum. He is the author of Scaffolded Minds (2019), Naturalism, Interpretation and Mental Disorder (2015), and Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal (2011).

Introduction: medicine at the crossroads; 1. Challenges to medicine at the end of ITS 'golden Age'; 2. Toward a normative philosophy of medicine; 3. Science and the nature of medicine: the systematicity thesis; 4. Inquiry in medical science: the understanding thesis; 5. Understanding in medicine; 6. The aim of medicine I: the autonomy thesis; 7. The aim of medicine II: current Alternatives; 8. Rethinking the challenges: the Moderate Position; Conclusion: disorientation and the 'greatest benefit to mankind'; References; Index.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 500 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Allgemeines / Lexika
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-009-45001-8 / 1009450018
ISBN-13 978-1-009-45001-0 / 9781009450010
Zustand Neuware
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