Overview
This book challenges the unchallenged methods in medicine, such as ""evidence-based medicine,"" which claim to be, but often are not, scientific. It completes medical care by adding the comprehensive humanistic perspectives and philosophy of medicine. No specific or absolute recommendations are given regarding medical treatment, moral approaches, or legal advice. Given rather is discussion about each issue involved and the strongest arguments indicated. Each argument is subject to further critical analysis. This is the same position as with any philosophical, medical or scientific view. The argument that decision-making in medicine is inadequate unless grounded on a philosophy of medicine is not meant to include all of philosophy and every philosopher. On the contrary, it includes only sound, practical and humanistic philosophy and philosophers who are creative and critical thinkers and who have concerned themselves with the topics relevant to medicine. These would be those philosophers who engage in practical philosophy, such as the pragmatists, humanists, naturalists, and ordinary-language philosophers. A new definition of our own philosophy of life emerges and it is necessary to have one. Good lifestyle no longer means just abstaining from cigarettes, alcohol and getting exercise. It also means living a holistic life, which includes all of one's thinking, personality and actions. This book also includes new ways of thinking. In this regard the ""Metaphorical Method"" is explained, used, and exemplified in depth, for example in the chapters on care, egoism and altruism, letting die, etc.
Full Product Details
Author: Barbara Maier ,
Warren A. Shibles
Publisher: Springer
Imprint: Springer
Edition: 2011 ed.
Volume: 47
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 2.150kg
ISBN: 9789048188666
ISBN 10: 9048188660
Pages: 543
Publication Date: 11 November 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
From the reviews: The purpose is to present a 'naturalistic, practical, pragmatic, consequentialistic, and humanistic theory of ethics,' to apply this to the philosophy of medicine, and to examine existing bioethical arguments in light of this theory. A systematic approach to this topic is quite welcome. ! the book will be helpful to practitioners, and ! healthcare workers (and everyone else) would benefit greatly from paying greater attention to philosophical ethics. ! Readers sympathetic to naturalistic and humanistic philosophies are the most likely to find this work helpful. (D. Robert MacDougall, Doody's Review Service, February, 2011)
Author Information
Warren Shibles was a Senior philosophy professor at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, Wisconsin and also taught courses at Tübingen, Germany. He has published 27 books, and over 180 professional journal articles.He also was a researcher in phonetics. He died in July 2007. Barbara Maier is a Senior physician, gynaecologist and obstetrician at the Women`s Hospital in Salzburg and head of the Department of Gynaecological Endocrinology and Assisted Reproduction at the University Clinic of Gynaecology and Obstetrics in Salzburg, Austria. She has been teaching ethics in medicine at the Institute for Ethics and Law at the University of Vienna since 1993. She has a Ph.D. in Philosophy, and M.D from the University of Vienna.
