Establishing Medical Reality Essays In The Metaphysics And Epistemol
Medicine raises numerous philosophical issues. Most discussed have been debates in bioethics. Yet contemporary medicine is also a rich source of controversies and examples that raise important issues in philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, and me
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Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 90
Founding Co-Editor Stuart F. Spicker
Editor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Associate Editor Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Department of Philosophy and Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Editorial Board George J. Agich, Department of Bioethics, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio Nicholas Capaldi, Department of Philosophy, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma Edmund Erde, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stratford, New Jersey Eric T. Juengst, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Christopher Tollefsen, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina Becky White, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Chico, California
ESTABLISHING MEDICAL REALITY ESSAYS IN THE METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE edited by
HAROLD KINCAID University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA and
JENNIFER MCKITRICK University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
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Chapter 1:
Introduction Harold Kincaid and Jennifer McKitrick
Chapter 2:
Normality, Disease and Enhancement Theodore M. Benditt
Chapter 3:
Holistic Theories of Health as Applicable to Non-Human Living Beings Lennart Nordenfelt
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Chapter 4:
Disease and the Concept of Supervenience Robert D’Amico
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Chapter 5:
Decision and Discovery in Defining ‘Disease’ Peter H. Schwartz
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Chapter 6:
Race and Scientific Reduction Mark Risjord
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Chapter 7:
Towards an Adequate Account of Genetic Disease Kelly C. Smith
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Chapter 8:
Why Disease Persists: An Evolutionary Nosology Robert L. Perlman
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Chapter 9:
Creating Mental Illness in Non-Disordered Community Populations Allan V. Horwitz
Chapter 10: Gender Identity Disorder Jennifer McKitrick
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Chapter 11: Clinical Trials as Nomological Machines: Implications for Evidence-Based Medicine Robyn Bluhm Chapter 12: The Social Epistemology of NIH Consensus Conferences Miriam Solomon Chapter 13: Maternal Agency and the Immunological Paradox of Pregnancy Moira Howes v
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