Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Delkeskamp-Hayes, Corinna[Herausgeber]
• Cutter, Mary Ann Gardell[Herausgeber]

Titel

Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine : European-American Dialogues

Ist Teil von

• Philosophy and Medicine : 44

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

1993

Link zum Volltext

• Volltext

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• I / Medical Facts and Scientific Progress: The Scientific Status of Medical Knowledge -- On the Scientific Status of Medical Research: Case Study and Interpretation According to Ludwik Fleck -- The Scientific Status of Medical Research: A Reply to Sch©Þfer -- Ludwik Fleck and the Philosophy of Medicine: A Commentary on Sch©Þfer and Tsouyopoulos -- II / Causality and Explanation in Medicine: The Regard for Practice in Medical Knowledge -- On the History of Medical Causality -- Causality and Conditionality in Medicine Around 1900 -- On Medicine�́�s Scientificity �́� Did Medicine�́�s Accession to Scientific �́�Positivity�́� in the Course of the Nineteenth Century Require Giving Up Causal (Etiological) Explanation? -- Causation and the Conceptual Scheme of Medical Knowledge -- The Dilemma of Medical Causality and the Issue of Biological Individuality -- III / Art and Intuition in Medical Decisions: The Regard for Knowledge in Medical Practice -- The Concept
• Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine contains papers by eminent scholars who discuss issues and concepts regarding the character of medicine. Special attention is given to the extent to which medicine is a science, art, and technology. Investigations are carried out with a particular focus on the nature of medical knowledge. Concepts of medical research, medical causality, intuition, and medical decision-making are examined in the light of medicine's revolutionary advances in the twentieth century. Past perspectives and present perplexities are also examined, bringing together a volume in the philosophy of medicine that treats a broad range of issues in medical epistemology and practise in a careful, critical fashion