The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine

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726 Seiten

2026
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-762583-5 (ISBN)

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine offers fresh insights into contemporary issues, showcasing philosophy's real-world impact. It explores core medical concepts through diverse traditions, addressing social justice, medical expertise, and the complex interplay of knowledge, power, and health.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine is a guide to areas of current activity and change, not only in philosophy of medicine, but also in medical science and practice. It asks questions that concern core problems for this discipline as well as metaphysical questions about the nature of health and truth in medicine, offering critical insights into the evolving landscape of medical thought.

This handbook reflects a renewed awareness that medical traditions are culturally diverse and of the philosophical opportunities this creates. It presents important new work on the demarcation of medicine from rivals and the legitimacy of its claims to superiority, while offering a balanced perspective on both the strengths and limitations of biomedicine. The volume explores how to promote better medicine and critically examines the preference in public policy for treatment over prevention, providing nuanced insights into enhancing healthcare practices.
Social justice has emerged in contemporary philosophy of medicine as a major concern, and the scholars who have contributed to this volume approach the complex relationship between medical knowledge and action from multiple angles. Medical contexts where race appears--or fails to appear--are covered, as well as concerns regarding gender and models of disability in medicine. Contributors also identify central problems in the uses of artificial intelligence and statistics in medicine, as well as the impact of recent attacks on medical experts from movements such as evidence-based medicine (EBM) and "too much medicine" (TMM).

Every chapter in this book seeks to move in two dimensions: to change philosophy, and to change medicine, with many contributors advocating thoughtful reform. This illustrates the paradoxical value of the applied turn in philosophy, which is that, when properly executed, it produces better philosophy. The potential for philosophy of medicine to contribute to medicine is very clear in these chapters, but so is its potential to contribute to philosophy--which is at its best when it seeks to influence something other than itself.

Alex Broadbent is Professor of Philosophy of Science at Durham University and Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg. He is co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Public Health at Durham University and the University of Johannesburg and founding Editor in Chief of the journal Philosophy of Medicine. He has special interests in epidemiology, causation, and law. His books include Philosophy of Epidemiology (2013) and Philosophy of Medicine (2019). With Sridhar Venkatapuram, he edited the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health (2023).

1. The Uses of Philosophy of Medicine
Alex Broadbent
2. African Philosophy of Medicine
Mbih Jerome Tosam
3. Ayurveda and Philosophy
Cristina Pecchia
4. Chinese Medicine and Philosophy
Lisa Raphals
5. Hippocratic Medicine and Philosophy
Michael Boylan
6. Philosophy of Medicine in the Islamic World
Tommaso Alpina
7. Modern Scientific Medicine's Demarcation Problem
Jonathan Fuller
8. Medicine, Pseudomedicine, and "Folk Medicine"
Somogy Varga and Andrew Latham
9. Decolonizing Medicine
Chadwin Harris
10. Medical Cosmopolitanism
Elena Popa
11. Biomedical, Biopsychosocial, and Beyond
Juliette Ferry-Danini
12. Progress in Medicine
Saana Jukola
13. Prevention, Treatment, and Cost
Stephen John
14. "Too Much Medicine" and the Bias to Act
Jeremy Howick
15. Medicine and Meaning in Life
Thaddeus Metz
16. Race in Medicine
Michael Diamond-Hunter
17. Epistemic Injustice, Medicine, and Gender
Eleanor Byrne and Marjolein de Boer
18. The Medical Model of Disability
Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry
19. Vaccine Denialism
Klemens Kappel
20. Medical Expertise
Maya J. Goldenberg
21. Evidence in Medicine
Bennett Holman and Doohyun Sung
22. Values in Medical Research
S. Andrew Schroeder
23. Statistics and Persuasion in Medicine
Barbara Osimani
24. Philosophical Issues in Medical Imaging
Elisabetta Lalumera
25. Medical Artificial Intelligence
Thomas Grote
26. Epidemiological Inferences
Olaf Dammann
27. Fact, Value, and Disorder
Rachel Cooper
28. The Metaphysics of Disease
Benjamin Smart
29. Disease Externalism
Shane Glackin
30. Truth in Medicine
M. Cristina Amoretti
31. Nature and Construction in Psychiatry
Dominic Murphy

Erscheinungsdatum	28.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	182 x 255 mm
Gewicht	1370 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
ISBN-10	0-19-762583-5 / 0197625835
ISBN-13	978-0-19-762583-5 / 9780197625835
Zustand	Neuware