Care and Cure · An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine, An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine by Stegenga, Jacob -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication contents Acknowledgments Note to Teachers Introduction part i. concepts

Chapter 1. Health

1.1 Summary 1.2 Neutralism and Naturalism 1.3 Well-Being and Normativism 1.4 Objectivism and Subjectivism Further Reading & Discussion Questions

Chapter 2. Disease

2.1 Summary 2.2 Naturalism 2.3 Normativism 2.4 Hybridism 2.5 Eliminativism 2.6 Phenomenology Further Reading & Discussion Questions

Chapter 3. Death

3.1 Summary 3.2 Defining Death 3.3 The Badness of Death 3.4 Ethics of Killing Further Reading & Discussion Questions

part ii. models and kinds

Chapter 4. Causation and Kinds

4.1 Summary 4.2 Three Theories of Causation 4.3 Diseases: Monocausal or Multifactorial? 4.4 Nosology 4.5 Precision Medicine Further Reading & Discussion Questions

Chapter 5. Holism and Reductionism

5.1 Summary 5.2 Disease 5.3 Medical Interventions 5.4 Patient-Physician Relationship Further Reading & Discussion Questions

Chapter 6. Controversial Diseases

6.1 Summary 6.2 Medicalization 6.3 Psychiatric Diseases 6.4 Culture-Bound Syndromes 6.5 Addiction Further Reading & Discussion Questions

part iii. evidence and inference

Chapter 7. Evidence in Medicine

7.1 Summary 7.2 Phases of Medical Research 7.3 Bias 7.4 Animal Models 7.5 Randomization 7.6 Meta-analysis 7.7 Mechanisms Further Reading & Discussion Questions

Chapter 8. Objectivity and the Social Structure of Science

8.1 Summary 8.2 Industry Funding and Publication Bias 8.3 Demarcation 8.4 Value-Laden Science 8.5 Social Epistemology Further Reading & Discussion Questions

Chapter 9. Inference

9.1 Summary 9.2 Causal Inference 9.3 Extrapolation 9.4 Measuring Effectiveness 9.5 Theories of Statistical Inference 9.6 Testing Precision Medicine Further Reading & Discussion Questions

Chapter 10. Effectiveness, Skepticism, and Alternatives

10.1 Summary 10.2 Defining Effectiveness 10.3 Medical Nihilism 10.4 Alternative Medicine 10.5 Placebo Further Reading & Discussion Questions

Chapter 11. Diagnosis and Screening

11.1 Summary 11.2 Diagnosis 11.3 Logic of Diagnostic Tests 11.4 Screening Further Reading & Discussion Questions

part iv. values and policy

Chapter 12. Psychiatry: Care or Control?

12.1 Summary 12.2 Psychiatric Nosology 12.3 Anti-psychiatry 12.4 Delusions and Exclusions Further Reading & Discussion Questions

Chapter 13. Policy

13.1 Summary 13.2 Research Priorities 13.3 Intellectual Property 13.4 Standards for Regulation Further Reading & Discussion Questions

Chapter 14. Public Health

14.1 Summary 14.2 Social Epidemiology 14.3 Preventive Medicine 14.4 Health Inequalities Further Reading & Discussion Question

References Index