Overview
Reframing Disease Contextually will be of particular interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers. It may also be of value to medical professionals, historians of western medicine, and health policy makers who take interest in the conceptual foundations of medicine. This book: - provides an overview of key debates in the history of modern western medicine on the nature, knowledge, and value of disease; - illustrates how these debates relate; - provides a ""contextual"" or ""localized"" way of understanding disease; - includes case studies of e.g. AIDS, genetic disease, and gendered disease; - conveys the importance of the intersection and interrelation between and among factors that make up disease; - illustrates how bioethical discussions about disease naming, classification, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment are part of a much greater discussion in philosophy of medicine.
Full Product Details
Author: Mary Ann Gardell Cutter
Publisher: Springer
Imprint: Springer
Edition: 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2003
Volume: 81
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9789048165100
ISBN 10: 9048165105
Pages: 195
Publication Date: 06 December 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
From the reviews: Mary Ann Cutter's `Reframing Disease Contextually' draws together a number of themes in philosophy of medicine in order to make the case that disease should be understood contextually and locally. ... Overall, this book makes an important case for viewing disease as `contextual' ... the examples of contextualism analyzed by Cutter are a useful and powerful way of making this point. ... All in All, this book is well worth reading. (Robyn Bluhm, Metapsychology Online Reviews, July, 2006)
From the reviews: Mary Ann Cutter's `Reframing Disease Contextually' draws together a number of themes in philosophy of medicine in order to make the case that disease should be understood contextually and locally. ... Overall, this book makes an important case for viewing disease as `contextual' ... the examples of contextualism analyzed by Cutter are a useful and powerful way of making this point. ... All in All, this book is well worth reading. (Robyn Bluhm, Metapsychology Online Reviews, July, 2006)
From the reviews: Mary Ann Cutter's 'Reframing Disease Contextually' draws together a number of themes in philosophy of medicine in order to make the case that disease should be understood contextually and locally. ... Overall, this book makes an important case for viewing disease as 'contextual' ... the examples of contextualism analyzed by Cutter are a useful and powerful way of making this point. ... All in All, this book is well worth reading. (Robyn Bluhm, Metapsychology Online Reviews, July, 2006)
