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(2004) The philosophical diseases of medicine and their cure I, Dordrecht, Springer.
The concept of a philosophy of medicine and in medicine frequently is reduced to medical ethics. Given the centrality of ethical questions for medicine, this is understandable, although such a reduction is obviously inadmissible because there are many other problems of philosophy of medicine besides those pertaining to medical ethics, for example the epistemological question discussed before: "What is the knowledge gained in medicine?" or the questions pertaining to a philosophy of life and of philosophical anthropology, "What is human health?" or, "What is human life?".
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-2871-7_3
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Seifert, J. (2004). From the morally relevant goals of medicine to medical ethics, in The philosophical diseases of medicine and their cure I, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 139-185.