Amid criticism of medicines scientific rigor and patient care, this book offers a philosophical examination of the nature and aims of medicine, and new perspectives on how these challenges can be addressed. It offers input for rethinking the agenda...Lasīt vairāk
Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume covers the multiple traditions that characterize his complex natural philosophy and medical theories, taking in e...Lasīt vairāk
Galen of Pergamum (AD 129--c. 210), physician and philosopher, anatomist, logician, clinical and pharmacological theorist and researcher, and personal doctor to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was the most influential and versatile medical author of th...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : International Perspectives In Philosophy & Psychiatry
(Izdošanas datums: 27-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198960706)
In an age of scientific psychiatry and evidenced-based medicine, the judgement of the psychiatric clinician in treating an individual patient has been devalued as the art of medicine as opposed to science, with reduced evidentiary value. The clin...Lasīt vairāk
Galen: An Anthology brings together the most comprehensive range of English translations of the works of physician-philosopher Galen of Pergamum, the most influential medical figure of the Graeco-Roman world. It includes his anatomical resea...Lasīt vairāk
Temple of Love is a non-fiction parable that fuses alternative holistic and healing modalities such as yoga, Theta healing, and plant medicines with classic Eastern philosophies into one book. When the narrator meets Nayanna, the Curandera (female sh...Lasīt vairāk
This work, designed for clinicians, adopts a coordinated multidisciplinary approach to a range of topics central to complexity in medicine, with the aim of offering an integrated, unitary perspective that stands in contrast to the traditional simplif...Lasīt vairāk
This work, designed for clinicians, adopts a coordinated multidisciplinary approach to a range of topics central to complexity in medicine, with the aim of offering an integrated, unitary perspective that stands in contrast to the traditional simplif...Lasīt vairāk
This open access collection brings together a team of leading scholars and rising stars to consider what experimental philosophy of medicine is and can be.While experimental philosophy of science is an established field, attempts to tackle...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, Other book format, Izdevniecība: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780190641429)
Galen of Pergamum (AD 129--c. 210), physician and philosopher, anatomist, logician, clinical and pharmacological theorist and researcher, and personal doctor to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was the most influential and versatile medical author of the...Lasīt vairāk
This book describes the philosophy of medicine as a subset of the philosophy of science. It is grounded in an epistemological bottom-up account that arises from the clinical situation, the epidemiologic and the resulting public health account. The...Lasīt vairāk
This volume focusses firstly on the role that has been or can be attributed to the history of medicine as a teaching subject in dealing with medical uncertainty, and secondly on the long-term and the varied nature of questions of uncertainty in the h...Lasīt vairāk
Elastic language is a phenomenon in linguistics that refers to how we stretch the meanings of words, depending on the context in which they are used for example many, about 20, perhaps, could be. This study looks specifically at elastic language in...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009501637)
The first full-scale account of the Latin technical treatises called artes, arguing that their flourishing in the early Roman Empire represents the emergence and development of a uniquely Roman scientific culture. Discusses the artes on architecture...Lasīt vairāk
Are you thinking about embarking on postgraduate qualifications? Are you unsure how to juggle the challenges of a doctorate alongside your clinical workload and personal responsibilities? Then this new book from academic and health professional Dr Ja...Lasīt vairāk
Edmund D. Pellegrino, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Fabrice Jotterand
Sērija : Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Nov-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Notre Dame Press, ISBN-13: 9780268175085)
Edmund D. Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. His writings encompass original explorations of the healing relationship, the need to place humanism in the medical curriculum, the n...Lasīt vairāk
A journey of self-empowerment to discover your innate inner wisdom and enact collective healing Takes you through the eight directions of the Medicine Wheel to ignite your spirit fire, inspire deeper connection with all life on Earth, and open your...Lasīt vairāk
Does a plant shrink at night and swell in the day, like an animal breathing in and out? For a long time, the Galenic concept of spiritus provided a causal explanation for human and animal life and perception. Albert the Great (1200-1280), whose hono...Lasīt vairāk
This edited volume explores the intersection of medicine and philosophy throughout history, calling attention to the role of quantification in understanding the medical body. Retracing current trends and debates to examine the quantification of th...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores key aspects of scientific reasoning, clinical methodology, and evidence-based practice, using quotes from the lectures of Jean-Martin Charcot (18251893) as a starting point for discussion and in-depth analysis....Lasīt vairāk
