Philosophy of Medicine
Research problems and methods in the philosophy of medicine
... of medicine. While a serious discussion of the ends of medicine lies beyond the scope of this chapter, they have traditionally been related to preserving life, relieving suffering, and promoting ...of ...
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The Philosophicum – Model Project of Philosophy of Medicine in Medical Education and Practice in Germany Perspective Article
... Abstract: Medical and philosophical thinking belong together, cannot be separated neither in scientific theory nor in practice, and only the symbiosis of both can face the challange to reflect the basic phenomenon of ...
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Renewing Medicine’s basic concepts: on ambiguity
... the philosophy of medicine follows Tristram Engelhardt and others in holding the concept of health to substan- tively rely on social, cultural, and historical factors ...the philosophy and ethics of ...
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Death, organ transplantation and medical practice
... We suggest that criteria for a concept are not necessarily truth conditions for assertions involving the concept. Hence, non-heart beating donors may be declared dead without meeting the criterion of strong ...
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The Hermeneutics of Medicine and the Phenomenon of Health: Steps towards Metaphysics of Medical Conception and Practice in Africa
... African medicine is no doubt predicated on some principles which are of metaphysical ...African medicine as fetish and superstitious just because African thought pattern does not fit into the western ...
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Understanding the Body Paragraph: A Handbook for EFL Teachers & Students
... Transition Program, which tested three treatment groups to determine what manner of additional support is needed for clients to establish a long-term dietary commitment to the Ceres food philosophy. A total of ...
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The body speaks Italian : Giuseppe Liceti and the conflict of philosophy and medicine in the Renaissance
... In both dialogues, Liceti’s rhetorical strategy involves intertwining several voices, representing more than just one position on the matter of nobility. Therefore it can be said that ultimately he delivers not one ...
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Pneumococcal nasopharyngeal colonisation in adults
... I am also particularly grateful to Catherine Molloy and Kelly Convey for all their administrative support, the data safety and monitoring committee (Rob Read and Brian Faragher) and the on-call physician team (Stephen ...
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Traditional Arabic & Islamic medicine: validation and empirical assessment of a conceptual model in Qatar
... Islamic Medicine (TAIM), refers to healing practices, beliefs, and philosophy incorporating herbal medicines, spiritual therapies, dietary practices, mind-body practices, and manual techniques, applied ...
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Hierarchies of evidence in evidence based medicine
... La Caze, in “Evidence-Based Medicine Must Be…” [11], offers his favoured interpretation of hierarchies. The interpretation has three features: relative ranking; internal validity as the interpretation property; ...
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Philosophical understanding and its relevance to their field of research
... of philosophy without understanding its relevance to their field of ...of philosophy and its object within the context of education as illustrated in the book “Philosophy and Education in Africa: An ...
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Natural philosophy, medicine and the culture of science in provincial England: the cases of Bristol, 1790-1850
... waters, and numbered among his supporters in the city Philip Thicknesse51 and Edmund Rack,52 the Quaker secretary to the Bath and West Society. Graham's critique of the medical situation was simple. He found most of the ...
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African philosophy on the way: theorizing oromo philosophy and theology of land (lafi keenya lafee keenya, our land is our bones)
... in the Oromo ethical view of life. The Oromo understand land not only as sacred or life but also as a mother who has a womb. When they express their epistemological view of the land and claim their attachment to the ...
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An Intelligent System Prototype to support and sharing diagnoses of maligned tumours, based on personalized medicine philosophy
... personalized medicine and parameters that help customize treatments and/or recommendations for better health, it is possible to require large storage of information related to ...
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What is the place for philosophy within the field of medicine? A review of contemporary issues in medical ethics
... It is uncontroversial to claim that many of the activities of Medicine aim to improve health. However, the con- cepts of ‘health’ and ‘disease’ are not clearly defined; questions about the normality of ageing and ...
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Teaching by (bad) example: what a confused attempt to “advance” EBM reveals about its underlying problems: commentary on Jenicek, M. (2015) Do we need another discipline in medicine? From epidemiology and evidence based medicine to cognitive medicine and medical thinking.
... Familiarity with intellectual history helps to explain why EBM literature typically omits Jenicek's step 5. It has been argued that EBM's intellectual heritage is 'positivist' in nature, 24-29 and, while this claim has ...
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The Role of Philosophy in Modern Medicine
... of philosophy in medicine was essentially ethical; but, as I have argued so far, this is ...incorrect. Philosophy provides the methodological tools, ethical principles and theories for the ...
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Psychosomatic medicine and the philosophy of life
... the philosophy of life of Hans Jonas, we have traced the development of living forms from their most basic constituents up to the more com- plex forms in which mental life, with an increasing span of feeling, ...
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Evaluating complementary medicine: methodological challenges of randomised controlled trials
... complementary medicine helps people recognise imbalance and adverse lifestyle factors that contribute to illness and promotes change and resultant improve- ments in health, then research needs to capture these ...
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A treatise for a new philosophy of chiropractic medicine
... a philosophy that will guide it through the political landscape? What principles can the profession avail itself upon to guide it through socio-cultural issues and establish health, social, political and economic ...
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