Titlebook: Evaluation and Explanation in the Biomedical Sciences; Proceedings of the F H. Tristram Engelhardt,Stuart F. Spicker Conference proceedings

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The Lived-Body as Catalytic Agent: Reaction at the Interface of Medicine and Philosophythis essay to make plausible and palatable the claim that Metaphysics or First Philosophy is in fact intimately bound to Medicine. at their interface — the lived human body — and that this is at once identical with the initial aspirations of both philosophy and medicine, qualified by the exclusion o

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Introductions underexamined by philosophy. But the claim to precedence of the . of the First Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine must be qualified. Claims to be “first” are notorious in the history of scientific as well as humanistic investigation and the claim that the First Trans-Disciplin

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Some Basic Explanations of Disease: An Historian’s Viewpointe is trying to understand the world around him and meets with puzzles that he cannot resolve. He is seeking an explanation. This word derives from the Latin ., which means “flat” or “smooth.” Explanation renders smooth that which formerly had been rough or uneven. Before a person seeks an explanatio

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Concepts of Function and Mechanism in Medicine and Medical Scienceinguishing between medicine and science; and of doing so in completely general terms. How is this to be done? And, once it is done, how are we then to describe the relations between the two enterprises, again in completely general terms? Is a knowledge of medicine something different in kind from a

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Comments on “Concepts of Function and Mechanism in Medicine and Medical Science” and “Organs, Organirst proponents of an organismic vision of life — neither crudely mechanistic nor vitalistic — that affirmed both the universal validity of physio-chemical laws in the biological domain and the existence of special non-reducible features, physiological in character, of living matter. For Bernard, the

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How Virtues Become Vices: Values, Medicine and Social Context not only the medical conscience. Consider first such problems as: ought abortion to be legal? Is it ever morally right? Ought those in extremes of pain to have the right to take their own lives? Ought physicians to have the right to take the lives of patients with terminal cancer, who are in extrem

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Moral Philosophy and Medical Perplexity: Comments on “How Virtues Become Vices”ive presentations, it is important, addressing as it does not only fundamental issues in moral philosophy and in the analysis of medical practice, but also the question of whether there is any significant gain that can be reasonably expected as a result of bringing philosophy to bear on the morally