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The Fragility of Philosophy of Medicine: Essentialism, Wittgenstein and Family Resemblances: Philosophy and Medicine, cartea 147

Autor Lucien Karhausen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 sep 2023
This book about philosophy of medicine bestows a bottom-up and not a top-down approach. It starts from clinical medicine and epidemiology, analyzing their interrelations with philosophical instruments. The book criticizes the constant search for generalities and the essentialism that too often characterizes this discipline, which results in philosophers of medicine dialoguing with each other without direct contact with medical science. In the light of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy, this book proposes an approach to the philosophy of medicine based on the quorum of language, what Wittgenstein calls family resemblances. In this way the author establishes a philosophy of medicine that is closely related to the medical clinic and to public health and as such avoids armchair philosophy. “Don’t think, but look", wrote Wittgenstein.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031416323
ISBN-10: 3031416325
Ilustrații: XIV, 214 p. 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2023
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seria Philosophy and Medicine

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1. A Certain Philosophical Context.- Chapter 2. Wittgenstein’s Toolbox.- Chapter 3.  Medicine.- Chapter 4. Diseases, Injuries, and Disabilities.- Chapter 5. Mental Disorders.- Chapter 6. Unexplained Physical Symptoms and Functional Disorders.- Chapter 7. Health.- Chapter 8. Causality.- Chapter 9. Medical Explanation.- Chapter 10. The Origins and Foundation of Medicine.- Chapter 11. Functions, Malfunctions, and Teleology.- Chapter 12.  Treatment, Placebos and Nocebos.- Chapter 13. Is Medical Grammar Counterfactual?.- Chapter 14. The Philosophy of Medicine Versus Medicine.- Chapter 15. To Conclude.
                 


Notă biografică

Lucien Karhausen graduated in medicine, from Brussels' Free University. he subsequently trained for five years in internal medicine at Memorial Hospital, Cornell Medical school in New York. Furthermore, he took a master's degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. Back in Belgium, he organized a a course on epidemiology for WHO's European Office . He was engaged by the European Commission in a radiation protection programme and became involved in the development of European medical research. He wrote several books in French on philosophical aspects of medicine.

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This book about philosophy of medicine bestows a bottom-up and not a top-down approach. It starts from clinical medicine and epidemiology, analyzing their interrelations with philosophical instruments. The book criticizes the constant search for generalities and the essentialism that too often characterizes this discipline, which results in philosophers of medicine dialoguing with each other without direct contact with medical science. In the light of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy, this book proposes an approach to the philosophy of medicine based on the quorum of language, what Wittgenstein calls family resemblances. In this way the author establishes a philosophy of medicine that is closely related to the medical clinic and to public health and as such avoids armchair philosophy. “Don’t think, but look", wrote Wittgenstein.

Caracteristici

Offers an original approach to philosophy of medicine, based on logic and philosophy of sciences Avoids armchair philosophy on medicine Argues in favor of applied philosophy of medicine