This is the second edition of Springer's first wide-ranging, multi-authored handbook on philosophy of medicine. It covers the underlying conceptual issues of many important social, political and ethical issues in health care and, as such, provides a single source of information for this far-ranging and still developing field. The second edition of this authoritative handbook includes topics that have gained momentum in the last couple of years, such as among others race and gender in medicine, medical nihilism, AI in medicine, and metaphysics of pregnancy. This second edition introduces and develops in total over hundred topics, concepts, and issues in the field. It is written by distinguished specialists from multiple disciplines, including philosophy, health sciences, nursing, sociology, political theory, and medicine.

Many complicated social and ethical issues in health care are based on conceptual problems, most prominently on the definitions of health and disease, or on epistemological issues regarding causality or diagnosis. Philosophy is the discipline that deals with such conceptual, metaphysical, epistemological, methodological, and axiological matters. This handbook covers all the central concepts in medicine, such as ageing, death, disease, mental disorder, and well-being. It is an invaluable resource for health care specialists who want to be informed and stay up to date with the relevant discussions, as well as philosophers and ethicists with an interest in medicine, and members of the general public with an interest in health care and related issues. The text also advances these debates and sets the agenda for years to come.

The 1st comprehensive, handbook in the field of philosophy of medicine This 2nd edition includes important emerging topics in the field such as AI in medicine Covers chief philosophical foundations of many important social, political and ethical issues

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Thomas Schramme is Professor in the Department of Philosophy of University of Hamburg, Germany. Dr. Schramme has nearly 2 decades of teaching and research experience in the field of philosophy of medicine. He has held several fellowships and holds Editorial Board memberships in a number of prestigious journals. Dr. Schramme has to his credit a large number of publications on philosophy of medicine and bioethics.

Mary Jean Walker is Lecturer in philosophy at La Trobe University. Her work in the philosophy of medicine includes contributions to debate on the concept of disease and investigation of the epistemology of personalised medicine. She also has research interests in bioethics, especially emerging technology bioethics and applications of medical phenomenology.

Inhalt

Grief.- Race in medicine.- The concept of eugenics.- Stigma (and shame).- Critical psychiatry.- Alzhemer's.- Problems in psychiatric nosology.- Modelling in medicine.- Metaphysics of pregnancy.- Medical research organisms.- Spirituality in healthcare.- Cultural influence on medical knowledge.- Death as biological category.- Science scepticism.- Medical Nihilism.- Medical conspiracy theories.- Gender as a category of analysis in medical knowledge.- Health promotion in public health: Philosophical analysis.- Personality disorder: Philosophical problems.- Environmental health (the exposome).- Philosophical problems on immunology.- Philosophy of Epidemiology.- Memory, identity and dementia.- Cancer medicine and precision oncology.