Volume 39, Issue 6 | Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

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Volume 39, Issue 6

December 2018

Special Issue: Reflections on modern medicine at the centenary of Max Weber's "Science as a vocation" (1917)

Issue Editors:

Matthew Vest,
Ashley Moyse

7 articles in this issue

Understanding modern, technological medicine: enchanted, disenchanted, or other?
Matthew Vest
Ashley Moyse
EditorialNotes 15 November 2018 Pages: 407 - 417
The worthless remains of a physician’s calling: Max Weber, William Osler, and the last virtue of physicians
Abraham M. Nussbaum
OriginalPaper 01 November 2018 Pages: 419 - 429
“Just do your job”: technology, bureaucracy, and the eclipse of conscience in contemporary medicine
Jacob A. Blythe
Farr A. Curlin
OriginalPaper 20 November 2018 Pages: 431 - 452
Enchanted nature, dissected nature: the case of Galen’s anatomical theology
Kimbell Kornu
OriginalPaper 17 November 2018 Pages: 453 - 471
Re-enchanting the body: overcoming the melancholy of anatomy
Joel James Shuman
OriginalPaper 08 November 2018 Pages: 473 - 481
On the disenchantment of medicine: Abraham Joshua Heschel’s 1964 address to the American Medical Association
Alan B. Astrow
OriginalPaper 08 November 2018 Pages: 483 - 497
Patient reflections on the disenchantment of techno-medicine
Devan Stahl
OriginalPaper 01 November 2018 Pages: 499 - 513