Evaluation and explanation in the biomedical sciences

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Springer, Dordrecht

1975

240 Pages

ISBN 978-94-010-1771-8

Evaluation and explanation in the biomedical sciences

proceedings of the first trans-disciplinary symposium on philosophy and medicine held at galveston, may 9–11, 1974

Edited by

Tristram Engelhardt, Stuart Spicker

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Full citation:

Engelhardt, T. , Spicker, (eds) (1975). Evaluation and explanation in the biomedical sciences: proceedings of the first trans-disciplinary symposium on philosophy and medicine held at galveston, may 9–11, 1974, Springer, Dordrecht.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Engelhardt Tristram; Spicker Stuart

1-7

Some basic explanations of disease

King Lester S.

11-27

Diseases versus healths

Burns Chester R.

29-47

Concepts of function and mechanism in medicine and medical science

Toulmin Stephen

51-66

Organs, organisms and disease

Mark W. Wartofsky

67-83

Comments on "concepts of function and mechanism in medicine and medical science" and "organs, organisms and disease"

Heelan Patrick A

85-93

How virtues become vices

MacIntyre Alasdair

97-111

Moral philosophy and medical perplexity

Gorovitz Samuel

113-121

The concepts of health and disease

Engelhardt Tristram

125-141

On disease

Kopelman Loretta

143-150

Context and reflexivity

Zaner Richard

153-174

Comments on "context and reflexivity"

Schuwer André

175-180

The lived-body as catalytic agent

Spicker Stuart

181-204

Comments on "the lived-body as catalytic agent"

Schuwer André

205-208

Round-table discussion

Engelhardt Tristram

211-234

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