Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine

I / Medical Facts and Scientific Progress: The Scientific Status of Medical Knowledge.- On the Scientific Status of Medical Research: Case Study and Interpretation According to Ludwik Fleck.- The Scientific Status of Medical Research: A Reply to Schäfer.- Ludwik Fleck and the Philosophy of Medicine: A Commentary on Schäfer and Tsouyopoulos.- II / Causality and Explanation in Medicine: The Regard for Practice in Medical Knowledge.- On the History of Medical Causality.- Causality and Conditionality in Medicine Around 1900.- On Medicine’s Scientificity — Did Medicine’s Accession to Scientific ‘Positivity’ in the Course of the Nineteenth Century Require Giving Up Causal (Etiological) Explanation?.- Causation and the Conceptual Scheme of Medical Knowledge.- The Dilemma of Medical Causality and the Issue of Biological Individuality.- III / Art and Intuition in Medical Decisions: The Regard for Knowledge in Medical Practice.- The Concept of the Art of Medicine.- Intuition and Technology as Bases of Medical Decision-Making.- Intuition and the Process of Medical Diagnosis: The Quest for Explicit Knowledge in the Technological Era.- Intuition in the Art and Science of Medicine.- Technoscience and Medicine.- IV / Obligations to Patients: The Purpose of Medical Practice and Its Consequences for Knowledge.- Knowledge and Art in the Practice of Medicine: Clinical Judgment and Historical Reconstruction.- Medicine: Explanation, Manipulation, and Creativity.- Medicine — Beyond the Boundaries of Sciences, Technologies, and Arts.- Is Medicine Special, And If So, What Follows?: An Attempt at Rational Reconstruction.- Notes on Contributors.