The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine
by Miriam Solomon, Jeremy R. Simon, Harold Kincaid
1st Edition
Publisher: Routledge
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780367360368 |
| eText ISBN | 9781317519843 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publishing Year | 2017 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 564 |
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine, 1st Edition, is a reference volume that provides a comprehensive guide to the epistemology and metaphysics of medicine.
The text addresses foundational concepts such as disease, causality, and mechanisms alongside medical research methodology and clinical practice. It also explores topics including narrative medicine, the philosophy of epidemiology, and diagnostic classification.
Written with a student audience in mind, each of the 48 chapters includes an extended example to illustrate theoretical ideas. The volume serves as a reference for students in philosophy of medicine and philosophy of science courses, and pairs with The Routledge Companion to Bioethics for medical humanities and social science curricula.
Table of Contents
PART I: GENERAL CONCEPTS
Chapter 2: The concept of disease
Chapter 5: Disease, illness, and sickness
Chapter 8: Health and wellbeing
Chapter 11: Disability and normality
Chapter 14: Mechanisms in medicine
Chapter 17: Causality and causal inference in medicine
Chapter 20: Frequency and propensity: The interpretation of probability in causal models for medicine
Chapter 23: Reductionism in the biomedical sciences
Chapter 26: Realism and constructivism in medicine
PART II: SPECIFIC CONCEPTS
Chapter 32: Birth
Chapter 35: Death
Chapter 38: Pain and suffering
Chapter 41: Measuring placebo effects
Chapter 44: The concept of genetic disease
Chapter 47: Diagnostic categories
Chapter 50: Classificatory challenges in psychopathology
Chapter 53: Classificatory challenges in physical disease
PART III: RESEARCH MEDICINE
Chapter (a): Evidence in Medicine
Chapter 18: The randomized controlled trial: internal and external validity
Chapter 19: The hierarchy of evidence, meta-analysis, and systematic review
Chapter 20: Statistical evidence and the reliability of medical research
Chapter 21: Bayesian versus Frequentist clinical trials
Chapter 22: Observational research
Chapter 23: Philosophy of epidemiology
Chapter 24: Complementary/alternative medicine and the evidence requirement
Chapter b: Other Research Methods
Chapter 25: Models in medicine
Chapter 26: Discovery in medicine
Chapter 27: Explanation in medicine
Chapter 28: The case study in medicine
Chapter 29: Values in medical research
Chapter 30: Outcome measures in medicine
Chapter 31: Measuring harms
Chapter 32: Expert consensus
PART IV: CLINICAL METHODS
Chapter 33: Clinical judgment
Chapter 34: Narrative medicine
Chapter 35: Medical decision making: diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis
PART V: VARIABILITY AND DIVERSITY
Chapter 36: Personalized and Precision Medicine
Chapter 37: Gender in Medicine
Chapter 38: Race in Medicine
Chapter 39: Atypical bodies in medical care
PART VI: PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 40: The biomedical model and the biopsychosocial model
Chapter 41: Models of mental illness
Chapter 42: Phenomenology and hermeneutics in Medicine
Chapter 43: Evolutionary Medicine
Chapter 44: Philosophy of Nursing: caring, holism and the nursing role(s)
Chapter 45: Contemporary Chinese medicine and its theoretical foundations
Chapter 46: Double truths and the postcolonial predicament of Chinese medicine
Chapter 47: Medicine as a commodity
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