Description:
A comprehensive guide for students in courses in philosophy of medicine and philosophy of science. It examines both traditional topics and emerging topics, with each of the 48 chapters written especially for the volume. Each chapter contains an extended example illustrating the ideas discussed.
Review Quotes:
"Medicine's challenges often appear to be purely scientific and technical - but those who work in clinical pratice or health policy know all too well that science and technology generate as many intellectual challenges as they solve. This book, whose diverse contributors include many at the cutting edge of philosophical inquiry, illuminates and explores these complex challenges. Reassuringly, few chapters offer easy answers or quick fixes."
Trisha Greenhalgh, University of Oxford, UK
"Unlike its sibling discipline, medical ethics, the philosophy of medicine has long needed an anthology that surveys the field and the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine fills that need. This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the methods and subjects of this emerging and exciting academic field. I am sure that this will become the standard introduction to the philosophy of medicine."
Tod Chambers, Northwestern University USA