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Title The philosophy of medicine : framing the field / edited by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr
Published Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [2000]
©2000

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Description viii, 250 pages : 1 portrait ; 23 cm
Series Philosophy and medicine ; v. 64
Philosophy and medicine ; v. 64
Contents The philosophy of medicine and bioethics: an introduction to the framing of a field -- Bodies of knowledge, philosophical anthropology, and philosophy of medicine -- Bodies, body parts, and body language: reflections on ontology and personal identity in medical practice -- Bodies and minds in the philosophy of medicine: organ sales and the lived body -- Accommodating death: euthanasia in the Netherlands -- Why should anyone listen to ethics consultants? -- Changing views of paternalism in research: AIDS activists demand change -- Three designations of disorder: diversity, disease, and determinism in psychiatric thought and practice -- Equity and the health effects of urbanization -- Engelhardt on Kant's moral foundations and Hegel's category of the State -- Bole on Kant, Hegel, and Engelhardt: a brief reply -- Epilogue: the use of the past
Notes [Festschrift for Stuart Francis spicker]
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Medical ethics.
Medicine -- Philosophy.
Philosophy, Medical.
Ethics, Medical.
Genre/Form Festschriften.
Author Engelhardt, H. Tristram (Hugo Tristram), Jr., 1941-
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LC no. 00027385
ISBN 0792362233 (hb : alk. paper)