Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics A Twenty-Year Retrospective and
Papers presented at a symposium on philosophy and medicine at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1974 were published in the inaugural volume of this series. To help celebrate more than 20 years of extraor
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Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 50 Editors H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Center for Ethics, Medicine, and Public Issues, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas and Philosophy Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas Stuart F. Spicker, Center for Ethics, Medicine, and Public Issues, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Associate Editor Kevin W. Wildes, S.J., Department of Philosophy, Washington, D.C.
Georgetown University,
Editorial Board George J. Agich, School of Medicine, Southern Illinois University, Springfield, Illinois Edmund Erde, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stratford, New Jersey E. Haavi Morreim, Department of Human Values and Ethics, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee Becky White, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Chico, California
PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE AND BIOETHICS A TWENTY-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE AND CRITICAL APPRAISAL
Edited by
RONALD A. CARSON Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, U.S.A.
CHESTER R. BURNS Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, U.S.A.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Ronald A. Carson and Chester R. Burns / Introduction
SECTION I
ix
HISTORY AND THEORY
Edmund D. Pellegrino / Bioethics as an Interdisciplinary Enterprise: Where Does Ethics Fit in the Mosaic of Disciplines?
1
K. Danner Clouser / Humanities in the Service of Medicine: Three Models
25
Stephen Toulmin / The Primacy of Practice: Medicine and Postmodernism
41
Marx W. Wartofsky / What Can the Epistemologists Learn from the Endocrinologists? Or Is the Philosophy of Medicine Based on a Mistake?
55
Edmund D. Pellegrino / Praxis as a Keystone for the Philosophy and Professional Ethics of Medicine: The Need for an Arch-Support: Commentary on Toulmin and Wartofsky 69 H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. / Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine Reconsidered
85
Henk ten Have / From Synthesis and System to Morals and Procedure: The Development of Philosophy of Medicine
105
Stuart F. Spicker / The Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics: Commentary on ten Have and Engelhardt
v
125
TABLE OF CONTENTS
vi
SECTION II
PRACTICE AND THEORY
Larry R. Churchill / Bioethics in Social Context
137
Judith Andre / The Week of November Seventh: Bioethics as Practice
153
Thomas R. Cole / Toward a Humanist Bioethics: Commentary on Churchill and Andre
173
Ronald A. Carson
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