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The nature of medicine raises fundamental questions about explanation, causation, knowledge and ontology - questions that are central to philosophy as well as medicine. In this book R. Paul Thompson and Ross E. G. Upshur introduce the fundamental issues in philosophy of medicine for those coming to the subject for the first time.
R. Paul Thompson holds appointments as Professor in The Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada. Ross E. G. Upshur is a physician, and Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Cananda. He is also Head of the Division of Clinical Public Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Scientific Director, Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation and Assistant Director, Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health Systems.
List of Figures List of Tables Preface Introduction 1. Philosophy of Medicine: Its Scope and Subject Matter 2. Defining Health and Disease 3. Theories and Models in Medicine 4. Materialism and Reductionism in Science and Medicine 5. Probability and Randomness 6. Causality and Induction 7. Randomised Controlled Trials and Study Design 8. Some Central Measures in Clinical Medicine 9. Reasoning in Clinical Practice: Prevention, Diagnosis, Therapy, Prognosis, Palliation and Rehabilitation 10. Medicine from First-Person Perspectives: Phenomenology, Narrative of Knowledge and Qualitative Approaches to Knowledge Creation and Use in Medicine 11. Neurosciences and Diseases of the Mind 12. The Varieties of Modern Medicine: Evolutionary Medicine, Evidence-based Medicine, Precision and Personalised Medicine and Alternative Medicine Bibliography Index