What is Philosophy of Medicine?

Journal title PARADIGMI
Author/s Elselijn Kingma
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/1 Language English
Pages 18 P. 11-28 File size 283 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2011-001002
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Philosophy of Medicine is considered a new and emerging discipline. This paper presents an overview of philosophy of medicine, discusses its relation to bioethics and to other areas of philosophy, and introduces three potential topics for research in the philosophy of medicine: concepts of health and disease, the relationship between medicine and psychiatry, and the problems of medical knowledge and evidence.

Keywords: Bioethics, Disease and health, Epistemology, Medicine, Philosophy, Psychiatry

Elselijn Kingma, What is Philosophy of Medicine? in "PARADIGMI" 1/2011, pp 11-28, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2011-001002