This book is a critical examination of certain basic issues and themes crucial to understanding how ethics currently interfaces with health care and biomedical research. Beginning with an overview of …

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From the tone of the report by the President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Re- search, one might conclude that the whole-brain-oriented defi …

Perhaps no philosopher has so fully explored the nature and conditions of historical understanding as Wilhelm Dilthey. His work, conceived overall as a Critique of Historical Reason and developed thr …

Phenomenology in the United States is in a state of ferment and change. Not all the changes are happy ones, however, for some of the most prominent philosophers of the first generation of phenomenolo …

Under the title of "Phenomenology: Continuation and Crit- icism, " the group of essays in this volume are presented in honor of Dorion Cairns on his 70th birthday. The contributors comprise …

Early in the first volume of his Ideen zu einer reinen Phiinomeno- logie und phiinomenologischen Philosophie, Edmund Husserl stated concisely the significance and scope of the problem with which this …

Historically, philosophy has been the point of origin of the various sciences. However, once developed, the sciences have increasingly become autonomous, although often taking some paradigm from lead …

This encyclopedia presents phenomenological thought and the phenomenological movement within philosophy and within more than a score of other disciplines on a level accessible to professional colleag …

In the following essays discussing clinical ethics consultation, three sorts of reflective writing are presented. The first is a description of a clinical ethics consultation, more generously detaile …

At the edge of mortality there is a place where the seriously ill or dying wait-a place where they may often feel vulnerable or alone. For over forty years, bioethicist cum philosopher Richard Zaner …

What, exactly, does it mean to be human? It is an age-old question, one for which theology, philosophy, science, and medicine have all provided different answers. But though a unified response to the …

In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. Mc Cartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and …