The Polish School of Philosophy of Medicine

I. Introduction: Philosophy of Medicine in Poland.- II. The Last Follower of ‘Medical Systems’ or a Pioneer of a New Approach to Therapy?.- II.a. Text of Cha?ubi?iski: Excerpts from The Method of Finding Therapeutic Indications (1874).- III. Edmund Biernacki on the Science of Diseases and the Art of Healing.- III.a. Text of Biernacki: Excerpts from The Essence and the Limits of Medical Knowledge (1898).- IV. W?adys?aw Biega?ski Between the Logic of Science and the Logic of Medicine.- IV.a. Texts of Biega?ski: Excerpts from General Problems of the Theory of Medical Sciences (1897).- Thoughts and Aphorisms on Medical Ethics (1899).- The Logic of Medicine or the Critique of Medical Knowledge (1908).- V. Zygmunt Kramsztyk and the Critical Evaluation of Medical Practice.- V.a. Texts of Kramsztyk: ‘Rational Treatment’ (1897).- ‘Is Medicine an Art or a Science?’ (1895).- ‘A Clinical Fact’ (1898).- ‘On Being-up to Date’ (1907).- VI. From Medical Critique to the Archives of the History and Philosophy of Medicine: The Institutionalization of Polish School of Philosophy of Medicine.- VI.a. Texts of Wrzosek and Trzebi?ski: Wrzosek: ‘Trends in contemporary medicine’ (1900).- Trzebi?ski: ‘Rationality and ‘Rationalism’ in Medicine’ (1925).- ‘Absurdity in Medicine’ (1927).- VII. From Philosophy of Medicine to a Constructivist and Relativist Epistemology.- VII.a. Texts of Fleck and Bilikiewicz Fleck: ‘some Specific Features of the Medical Way of Thinking’ (1927).- Fleck: ‘On the Crisis of ‘Reality’’ (1929).- Fleck: ‘Science and Social Context’ (1939).- Bilikiewicz: ‘Comments on Ludwik Fleck’s ‘Science and Social Context’’ (1939).- Fleck: ‘Rejoinder to the Comments of Tadeusz Bilikiewicz’ (1939).- Bilikiewicz:‘Reply to the Rejoinder by Ludwik Fleck’ (1939).- VIII. Conclusions: Philosophizing at the Bedside.- Name Index.