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The Ethics of Diagnosis

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. José Luis Peset

    1. Instituto Arnau de Vilanova Condejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid

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  2. Diego Gracia

    1. Complutensis University of Madrid, Madrid

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 40)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Definitions of Health and Illness in the Light of American Values and Social Structure

    1. Introduction

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
      Pages 1-10

  4. Anthropological Interpretations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. The Body as A Field of Meaning: Implications for the Ethics of Diagnosis

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
      Pages 75-77

    3. Embodiment, Pathology, and Diagnosis

      • José Alberto Mainetti
      Pages 79-93

    4. The Experience of Pain and its Clinical Implications

      • Drew Leder
      Pages 95-105

    5. Ethics in Diagnosis: Bodily Integrity, Trust-Telling, and the Good Physician

      • Stuart F. Spicker
      Pages 107-122

    6. Bodily Norms and the Ethics of Diagnosis

      • Thomas J. Bole III
      Pages 123-127

  5. The Socio-Cultural Dimension of Medical Knowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. The Social Presuppositions of Medical Knowledge

      • Marx Wartofsky
      Pages 131-151

    3. Diagnosing the Eleven Month Pregnancy: Some Aspects of Moral and Cultural Foundations in Medical Judgment

      • Hans-Martin Sass
      Pages 153-162

    4. Value Presuppositions of Diagnosis: A Case Study in Diagnosing Cervical Cancer

      • Mary Ann Gardell Cutter
      Pages 163-170

  6. Computer Augmented Diagnosis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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About this book

A major focus of the philosophy of medicine and, in general, of the philosophy of science has been the interplay of facts and values. Nowhere is an evaluation of this interplay more important than in the ethics of diagnosis. Traditionally, diagnosis has been understood as an epistemological activity which is concerned with facts and excludes the intrusion of values. The essays in this volume challenge this assumption. Questions of knowledge in diagnosis are intimately related to the concerns with intervention that characterize the applied science of medicine. Broad social and individual goals, as well as diverse ethical frameworks, are shown to condition both the processes and results of diagnosis. This has significant implications for bioethics, implications that have not previously been developed. With this volume, `the ethics of diagnosis' is established as an important branch of bioethics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Instituto Arnau de Vilanova Condejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid

    José Luis Peset

  • Complutensis University of Madrid, Madrid

    Diego Gracia

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Ethics of Diagnosis

  • Editors: José Luis Peset, Diego Gracia

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-28333-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1544-5Published: 30 June 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4110-4Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-585-28333-3Published: 23 July 2007

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 315

  • Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Ethics, History of Medicine, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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