Reframing Disease Contextually: 81 (Philosophy and Medicine, 81) - Hardcover

Gardell Cutter, Mary Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402017960 ISBN 13: 9781402017964

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

This volume will be of interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers, medical professionals, historians of western medicine, and health policymakers. The book provides an overview of key debates in the history of modern western medicine on the nature, knowledge, and value of disease. It includes case studies of e.g. AIDS, genetic disease, and gendered disease.

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"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)

Synopsis

"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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402017960
• ISBN 13: 9781402017964
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 195