Published December, 2010
By J.C. Moskop and L.M. Kopelman
Publisher: Springer
Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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This volume offers a collection of writings on ethical issues regarding retarded persons. Of course, many people have been very concerned with practical matters concerning the care of retarded persons such as what liberties, entitlements or advocacy they should have.

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Published December, 2010
By Jose Luis Peset and Diego Gracia Guillen
Publisher: Springer
Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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A major focus of the philosophy of medicine and, in general, of the philosophy of science has been the interplay of facts and values. Broad social and individual goals, as well as diverse ethical frameworks, are shown to condition both the processes and results of diagnosis.

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Published December, 2010
By D. Leder
Publisher: Springer
Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a central theme of intellectual debate. Its authors suggest that many of the problems often found in modern medicine -- dehumanized treatment, overspecialization, neglect of the mind's healing resources -- are directly traceable to medicine's outmoded concepts of the body.

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Published December, 2010
By Laurence B. McCullough
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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Published December, 2010
By Hans-Martin Sass, Robert U. Massey and R.U. Massey
Publisher: Springer
Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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Published December, 2010
By D. Christopher Ralston and Justin Ho
Publisher: Springer
Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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After examining competing philosophical approaches to disability, this volume goes on to address such themes as the complex interplay between disability and quality of life, questions of social justice, and the personal dimensions of disability.

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Published December, 2010
By Paulina Taboada, Kateryna Fedoryka Cuddeback, Patricia Donohue-White, K.F. Cuddeback and P. Donohue-White
Publisher: Springer
Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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Published December, 2010
By Mary Ann Gardell Cutter, Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes and C. Delkeskamp-Hayes
Publisher: Springer
Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine contains papers by eminent scholars who discuss issues and concepts regarding the character of medicine. Concepts of medical research, medical causality, intuition, and medical decision-making are examined in the light of medicine's revolutionary advances in the twentieth century.

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Published December, 2010
By Lennart Nordenfelt and L.Y Nordenfelt
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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Questions concerning the notion of quality of life, its definition, and its ap plications for purposes of assessment and measurement in social and medical contexts, have been widely discussed in Scandinavia during the last ten years.

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Published December, 2010
By Mary Ann Gardell Cutter
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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This volume will be of interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers, medical professionals, historians of western medicine, and health policymakers. The book provides an overview of key debates in the history of modern western medicine on the nature, knowledge, and value of disease.

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