Autore: S.F. Spicker

Ethik und öffentliches Gesundheitswesen wendet sich an alle mündigen und an der Struktur und Ethik des öffentlichen Gesundheitswesens interessierten Bürger, vor allem aber an Mediziner und Medizinpol …

The growth of knowledge and its effects on the practice of medicine have been issues of philosophical and ethical interest for several decades and will remain so for many years to come. The outline o …

This volume, which has developed from the Fourteenth Trans- Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine, September 5-8, 1982, at Tel Aviv University, Israel, contains the contributions of a gro …

There is both a timeliness and a transcendent ‘rightness’ in the fact that scholars, clinicians, and health professionals are beginning to examine the ethics-based components of decision making in he …

The spectacular development of medical knowledge over the last two centuries has brought intrusive advances in the capabilities of medical technology. These advances have been remarkable over the las …

This volume is a contribution to the continuing interaction between law and medicine. Problems arising from this interaction have been addressed, in part, by previous volumes in this series. In fact, …

Over a period of a year, the symposium on clinical judgment has taken shape as a volume devoted to the analysis of how knowledge claims are framed in medicine and how choices of treatment are made. W …

This Festschrift is presented to Professor Hans Jonas on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, as affirmation of the contributors’ respect and admiration. As a volume in the series ‘Philosophy …

Although the investigation and regulation of the faculties of the human mind appear to be the proper and sole concern of philosophers, you see that they are in some part nevertheless so little foreig …

This volume inaugurates a series concerning philosophy and medicine. There are few, if any, areas of social concern so pervasive as medicine and yet as underexamined by philosophy. But the claim to p …

The concept ‘health’ is ambiguous [18, 9, 11]. The concept ‘mental health’ is even more so. ‘Health’ compasses senses of well-being, wholeness, and sound- ness that mean more than the simple freedom …