The Ethics of DiagnosisJosé Luis Peset, Diego Gracia Guillén Springer Science & Business Media, 2007 M07 23 - 315 pages A major focus of the philosophy of medicine and, in general, of the philosophy of science has been the interplay of facts and values. Nowhere is an evaluation of this interplay more important than in the ethics of diagnosis. Traditionally, diagnosis has been understood as an epistemological activity which is concerned with facts and excludes the intrusion of values. The essays in this volume challenge this assumption. Questions of knowledge in diagnosis are intimately related to the concerns with intervention that characterize the applied science of medicine. Broad social and individual goals, as well as diverse ethical frameworks, are shown to condition both the processes and results of diagnosis. This has significant implications for bioethics, implications that have not previously been developed. With this volume, `the ethics of diagnosis' is established as an important branch of bioethics. |
Contents
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DIEGO GRACIA The Ethics of Diagnosis in Early Christianity | 19 |
AGUSTÍN ALBARRACÍN The Ethics of Diagnosis in the Modern | 28 |
JOSÉ LUIS PESET Medical Diagnosis and Institutional Settings | 41 |
H TRISTRAM ENGELHARDT JR The Body as a Field | 75 |
DREW LEDER The Experience of Pain and its Clinical Implications | 95 |
Bodily Integrity | 106 |
THOMAS J BOLE III Bodily Norms and the Ethics of Diagnosis | 123 |
MARY ANN GARDELL CUTTER Value Presuppositions | 163 |
PELLEGRINO Value Desiderata in the Logical | 172 |
KENNETH F SCHAFFNER Problems in Computer Diagnosis | 197 |
HENRIK R WULFF Computers and Clinical Thinking 243 | 242 |
EDMOND A MURPHY Critique of Diagnostic Formalism | 255 |
BOISAUBINHuman Values in Computer Diagnosis | 269 |
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS | 301 |
MARX WARTOFSKY The Social Presuppositions of Medical | 129 |
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