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Analytic Philosophy of Clinical and Community Medicine

Scientific Philosophy and Philosophical Medicine

By: Lucien R Karhausen

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Analytic Philosophy of Clinical and Community Medicine

Scientific Philosophy and Philosophical Medicine

By: Lucien R Karhausen

I was encouraged to read in the Introduction that it treated philosophy of medicine as part of the philosophy of science. But I was a little sceptical on reading that as such it is comprehensive. Couldn’t a comprehensive account be written only by an amazing polymath? But it turns out that you are that amazing polymath. You seem to have read everything and succeeded in producing an encyclopedia of all the issues. It will establish itself as an essential guide to the field. Professor Jonathan Glover

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Xlibris Corporation

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ISBN 13

9798369404034

Reconsidering Medicine

Reconfiguring the Relationship Between Philosophy of Science And Clinical Medicine

By: Lucien Karhausen

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Reconsidering Medicine

Reconfiguring the Relationship Between Philosophy of Science And Clinical Medicine

By: Lucien Karhausen

This is an original book on the philosophy of medicine. It considers philosophy of medicine as a subdiscipline of philosophy of science. This volume is grounded on an epistemological bottom-up account that arises from the clinical situation, the epidemiologic, and the resulting public health account. It is not a review of the literature, and it is not intended to frame the debates, or to analyze and compare the various number of viewpoints. Medicine is the human activity, which begins by a linguistic act that identifies the negative norms of health: it begins with a first distinction that splits biological processes into three conventional parts, normal, abnormal and pathologic. Neither of them is a natural kind. Being abnormal is intrinsically bad and admits of degrees, while being pathologic is dichotomous. Being normal is factitious and counterfactual much the same as frictionless planes in physics. Leaving apart the ethical aspects, this book endeavors to uncover the implicit conceptual network, the chief junctures of medicine, should they be found, and their articulations with clinical and community medicine. It results that medicine is pervaded with dichotomous concepts such as scientific vs pragmatic discourse, function and malfunction, abnormal and pathologic, needs and wants, causation and explanation, clinical vs community-oriented care, physical vs psychiatric diseases, mental illness vs deviancy, and so on. Medical thinking has two dimensions intrinsically interweaved, namely a constant amalgam and admixture of biological and normative aspects, so that this essential hybrid nature of the grammar of medicine endorses opposite approaches, naturalistic or normativist, biological or value-laden, realist or instrumental, reductionist or holistic, phenomenological or analytic.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1685620574

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9781685620578

The Fragility of Philosophy of Medicine

Essentialism, Wittgenstein and Family Resemblances

By: Lucien Karhausen

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The Fragility of Philosophy of Medicine

Essentialism, Wittgenstein and Family Resemblances

By: Lucien Karhausen

This book about philosophy of medicine bestows a bottom-up and not a top-down approach. It starts from clinical medicine and epidemiology, analyzing their interrelations with philosophical instruments. The book criticizes the constant search for generalities and the essentialism that too often characterizes this discipline, which results in philosophers of medicine dialoguing with each other without direct contact with medical science. In the light of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy, this book proposes an approach to the philosophy of medicine based on the quorum of language, what Wittgenstein calls family resemblances. In this way the author establishes a philosophy of medicine that is closely related to the medical clinic and to public health and as such avoids armchair philosophy. “Don’t think, but look", wrote Wittgenstein.

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221

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Springer Nature

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3031416333

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9783031416330

Dr Georges Canguilhem

Médecin anomal

By: Lucien R. Karhausen

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Dr Georges Canguilhem

Médecin anomal

By: Lucien R. Karhausen

Georges Canguilhem a laissé une oeuvre marquée par une exigeante lucidité et une grande rectitude morale. Ce livre se limite à analyser ses recherches sur la biologie et la médecine. L'apport majeur de Canguilhem porte sur l'histoire des idées médicales des origines jusqu'au début du XXe siècle. Cet ouvrage revient sur le regard anthropologique qu'il porte sur la médecine, regard qui ne réussit néanmoins pas à saisir la réalité humaine, sociale, culturelle et finalement médicale de la maladie.

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Editions L'Harmattan

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2343124876

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9782343124872

Book's by Lucien R Karhausen

Analytic Philosophy of Clinical and Community Medicine

Analytic Philosophy of Clinical and Community Medicine

Reconsidering Medicine

Reconsidering Medicine

The Fragility of Philosophy of Medicine

The Fragility of Philosophy of Medicine

Dr Georges Canguilhem

Dr Georges Canguilhem

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