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The Relation Of Medicine To Philosophy
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Author : R. O. Moon
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-12
The Relation Of Medicine To Philosophy written by R. O. Moon and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12 with Science categories.
New Premium Paperback - Bookstore Quality Edition!Dr. Moon is a physician to the National hospital for diseases of the heart in London, and the first three chapters of the book were originally published in the "British Medical Journal." Its object is "to show by taking various important epochs in the history of the world, how intimately medicine has been bound up with the current thought and philosophy of the day; how medicine no more than art can work away by itself uninfluenced by the intellectual milieu in which it finds itself" (p. vii). Both in his Preface and at the end of the book, the author, however, refers to a more practical object, which he believes that a study of the interrelations between philosophy and medicine should help to bring about. This is to afford to the physician a broader and truer conception of the purpose of his art, as not merely contributing to the preservation of life, but as furthering the intellectual and moral conditions that make life saner and more satisfying.
The Relation Of Medicine To Philosophy
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Author : R. O. Moon
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-01-10
The Relation Of Medicine To Philosophy written by R. O. Moon and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-10 with Medical categories.
Dr. Moon is physician to the National hospital for diseases of the heart in London, and the first three chapters of the book were originally published in theBritish Medical Journal. Its object is “to show by taking various important epochs in the history of the world, how intimately medicine has been bound up with the current thought and philosophy of the day; how medicine no more than art can work away by itself uninfluenced by the intellectual milieu in which it finds itself" (p. vii). Both in his Preface and at the end of the book, the author, however, refers to a more practical object, which he believes that a study of the interrelations between philosophy and medicine should help to bring about. This is to afford to the physician a broader and truer conception of the purpose of his art, as not merely contributing to the preservation of life, but as furthering the intellectual and moral conditions that make life saner and more satisfying. “The function of the poet, Goethe tells us somewhere, is so to represent things that we may find life tolerable; and the physician, in providing for the health of the body as a sort of indispensable prerequisite, must ever have before his mind that wider outlook which shall enable him to cope with the tædium vitæ, Weltschmerz, maladie de l'infini, or by whatever name we like to call those ills which seem inseparable from the travail of an advanced civilization struggling to a new birth" (p. xi). The book covers practically the whole field of the history of medicine and is consequently sometimes scrappy and disconnected. Its main service is in bringing together from the standard histories of medicine. and thus making more generally accessible to English readers, the main facts regarding the development of medical theory and practice in their relation to the science and philosophy of the different historical periods. The author does not profess to base his work on original research, but he writes pleasantly and clearly; and although he emphasizes the advantages that have come to medicine through turning away from general theories and occupying itself with detailed researches, he yet looks forward to a return to philosophy, a renewal of the sense of the unity of all the rational pursuits of life. —The Philosophical Review, Volume 19 [1910]
The Relation Of Medicine To Philosophy
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Author : Robert Oswald Moon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
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Relation Of Medicine To Philosophy
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Author : Robert Oswald Moon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
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The Relation Of Medicine To Philosophy Classic Reprint
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Author : Robert Oswald Moon
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-11-27
The Relation Of Medicine To Philosophy Classic Reprint written by Robert Oswald Moon and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-27 with Philosophy categories.
Excerpt from The Relation of Medicine to Philosophy That the progress of medical science has enor mously reduced the death-rate no one can possibly deny. The cry occasionally heard, that there is a vast increase in diseases which were never heard of before, is purely absurd; this increase of disease is merely increase in the differentiation of disease. Because at one time the word fever served to cover almost every affection in which the pulse and respiration were quickened and the skin hot, the sum total of disease has not been increased by giving different names to the various fevers. To take a more techni cal instance, the disease of the nervous system called Disseminated Sclerosis will almost undoubtedly be divided up with increasing knowledge into several diseases of the spinal cord, but the sum total of diseases will not be larger. There is, however, just this much truth in the outcry, that as man's life has become more complex with advancing civilisation, so the possibility of minor oscillations from complete adjustment to the environment becomes increasingly great; it is more difficult to be perfectly healthy, because a higher standard of health is required by modern life. This is particularly seen in the case of insanity for civilisation, by increasing the number of social and moral rules to be observed, increases the possibility of their infraction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Relation Of Medicine To Philosophy
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Author : Robert Oswald Moon
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-15
The Relation Of Medicine To Philosophy written by Robert Oswald Moon and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-15 with Philosophy categories.
Excerpt from The Relation of Medicine to Philosophy This little book, of which the first three chapters have already appeared in the British Medical Journal, and which I am allowed here to reproduce, by the kind permission of the Editor, does not profess in any sense to be a History of Medicine. With that we are already furnished, on a large scale in the shape of Haeser's encyclopædic work, and on a smaller scale in Withington's most illuminating History of Medicine from the Earliest Times. To both of these works I am very largely indebted, as also to Kurt Sprengel's History of Medicine, the references to which are taken from the French translation by Jourdan (1815). Its object is rather to show, by taking various important epochs in the history of the world, how intimately medicine has been bound up with the current thought and philosophy of the day; how medicine no more than art can work away by itself, uninfluenced by the intellectual milieu in which it finds itself. We shall thus see why some epochs have been peculiarly favourable to the progress of medicine, others as markedly the reverse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Relation Of Medicine To Philos
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Author : Robert Oswald 1865 Moon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-08-28
Relation Of Medicine To Philos written by Robert Oswald 1865 Moon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-28 with History categories.
Medical Philosophy
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Author : Mario Bunge
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Release Date : 2013-05-30
Medical Philosophy written by Mario Bunge and has been published by World Scientific Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-30 with Medical categories.
This is the first book that analyzes and systematizes all the general ideas of medicine, in particular the philosophical ones, which are usually tacit. Instead of focusing on one or two points — typically disease and clinical trial — this book examines all the salient aspects of biomedical research and practice: the nature of disease; the logic of diagnosis; the discovery and design of drugs; the design of lab and clinical trials; the crafting of therapies and design of protocols; the moral duties and rights of physicians and patients; the distinctive features of scientific medicine and of medical quackery; the unique combination of basic and translational research; the place of physicians and nurses in society; the task of medical sociology; and the need for universal medical coverage. Health care workers, medicine buffs, and philosophers will find this thought-provoking book highly useful in their line of work and research.
Medicine And Philosophy In Classical Antiquity
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Author : Philip J. van der Eijk
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-05-12
Medicine And Philosophy In Classical Antiquity written by Philip J. van der Eijk and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-12 with Philosophy categories.
This work brings together Philip van der Eijk's previously published essays on the close connections that existed between medicine and philosophy throughout antiquity. Medical authors such as the Hippocratic writers, Diocles, Galen, Soranus and Caelius Aurelianus elaborated on philosophical methods such as causal explanation, definition and division and applied key concepts such as the notion of nature to their understanding of the human body. Similarly, philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle were highly valued for their contributions to medicine. This interaction was particularly striking in the study of the human soul in its relation to the body, as illustrated by approaches to specific topics such as intellect, sleep and dreams, and diet and drugs. With a detailed introduction surveying the subject as a whole and an essay on Aristotle's treatment of sleep, this wide-ranging and accessible collection is essential reading for the student of ancient philosophy and science.
Medicine Philosophy
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Author : Ingvar Johansson
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-05-02
Medicine Philosophy written by Ingvar Johansson and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Philosophy categories.
This textbook introduces the reader to basic problems in the philosophy of science and ethics, mainly by means of examples from medicine. It is based on the conviction that philosophy, medical science, medical informatics, and medical ethics are overlapping disciplines. It claims that the philosophical lessons to learn from the twentieth century are not that nature is a ‘social construction’ and that ‘anything goes’ with respect to methodological and moral rules. Instead, it claims that there is scientific knowledge, but that it is never completely secure; that there are norms, but that they are situation-bound; and that, therefore, it makes good sense to search for scientific truths and try to act in a morally decent way. Using philosophical catchwords, the authors advocate ‘fallibilism’ and ‘particularism’; a combination that might be called ‘pragmatic realism’.