Care and cure : an introduction to philosophy of medicine / Jacob Stegenga.
By: Stegenga, Jacob [author.].
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, ©2018Description: 248 p: 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226590813 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Medicine -- Philosophy | Medicine -- MethodologyGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index.
Concepts. Health ; Disease ; Death -- Models and kinds. Causation and kinds ; Holism and reductionism ; Controversial diseases -- Evidence and inference. Evidence in medicine ; Objectivity and the social structure of science ; Inference ; Effectiveness, skepticism, and alternatives ; Diagnosis and screening -- Values and policy. Psychiatry: care or control? ; Policy ; Public health.