Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine

1. “Lives at Risk” Study: Philosophical and Ethical Implications of Using Narrative Inquiry in Health Services Research

   • Ashrafunnesa Khanom, Sarah Wright, Marcus Doel, Melanie Storey, Clare Clement, Frances Rapport

2. Applying Medical Knowledge: Diagnosing Disease

   • William E. Stempsey

3. Biomedical Reductionist, Humanist, and Biopsychosocial Models in Medicine

   • S. Nassir Ghaemi

4. Causation and Correlation in Medical Science: Theoretical Problems

   • Federica Russo

5. Changing Human Nature. The Ethical Challenge of Biotechnological Interventions on Humans

   • Jan-Christoph Heilinger, Oliver Müller, Matthew Sample

6. Children Are Not Small Adults: Significance of Biological and Cognitive Development in Medical Practice

   • Vic Larcher

7. Clinical Diagnosis: Evidence, Ethics, and Justice

   • Ashley Graham Kennedy

8. Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Its Relationship to Western Medicine

   • Pekka Louhiala

9. Conceptions of Health and Disease in Plants and Animals

   • Henrik Lerner

10. Conceptualization of Genetic Disease

    • Catherine Dekeuwer

11. Conceptualizing Autonomy in Health Care and Policy

    • Mary Jean Walker

12. Culpability

    • Sofia Jeppsson

13. Cultural Influences on Medical Knowledge

    • David Hughes

14. Curing and Healing: Two Goals of Medicine

    • Dorota Szawarska

15. Death as Biological Category

    • Stephen Holland

16. Delusions: A Project in Understanding

    • KWM Fulford, Tim Thornton

17. Dignity of the Patient

    • Andrew Edgar, Lennart Nordenfelt

18. Disability as Medical and as Social Category

    • Steven Edwards

19. Disease as Scientific and as Value-Laden Concept

    • Elselijn Kingma

20. Dying and the End of Life

    • James Stacey Taylor

Philosophy of medicine is thought of today as a distinct discipline with its own set of concerns. This title focuses on all major aspects of the philosophy of medicine and the attempts of philosophers, bioethicists, and physicians to address its unique set of problems and questions. It deals with the various metaphysical, ethical and practical problems and questions facing modern medicine such as human nature and mind; reductionism and holism; causation and etiology; notions of disease, health, illness and disability; ageing, death and suicide; medical theory and models; social determinants of health and the role of factors such as technology and evidence-based medicine in providing valid diagnostic and therapeutic knowledge.

• Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  Thomas Schramme

• Dept. of Politics, Media & Philosophy, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia

  Mary Walker

Thomas Schramme is Professor in the Department of Philosophy of University of Hamburg, Germany. Dr. Schramme has nearly 2 decades of teaching and research experience in the field of philosophy of medicine. He has held several fellowships and holds Editorial Board memberships in a number of prestigious journals. Dr. Schramme has to his credit a large number of publications on philosophy of medicine and bioethics.

Steven Edwards is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, History & Law in Swansea University, UK. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Edwards has focused mainly on ethical and philosophical issues in healthcare, specifically the philosophy and ethics of nursing and the philosophy of disability. He is a member of important ethics committees in related fields. Dr. Edwards has to his credit a good number of publications on philosophy of medicine and bioethics.

Policies and ethics