Health, Disease, and Illness
Concepts in Medicine
by Arthur L. Caplan and James J. McCartney
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Brings together classic and contemporary thinkers to examine the history, state, and future of ever-changing "concepts" in medicine. Divided into four parts--Historical Discussions; Characterizing Health, Disease, and Illness; Clinical Applications of Health and Disease; and Normalcy, Genetic Disease, and Enhancement: The Future of the Concepts of Health and Disease--the reader can see the evolutionary arc of medical concepts from the Greek physician Galen of Pergamum (ca. 150 CE) who proposed that "the best doctor is also a philosopher," to contemporary discussions of the genome and morality. The editors have recognized a crucial need for a deeper integration of medicine and philosophy with each other, particularly in an age of dynamically changing medical science--and what it means, medically, philosophically, to be human.
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Medicine, Philosophy, Health, Diseases, Medicine, philosophy, Medical Philosophy, Disease| Edition | Availability |
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Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine
June 2004, Georgetown University Press
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in English
1589010140 9781589010147
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Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine
2004, Georgetown University Press
in English
1589013387 9781589013384
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"NOW IN REFERENCE TO the genesis of the humours, I do not know that any one could add anything wiser than what has been said by Hippocrates, Aristotle, Praxagoras, Philotimus and many other among the Ancients."
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