Health, Disease, and Illness
Concepts in Medicine
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Contributions
- Edmund D. Pellegrino (Foreword) - Contributor
- Arthur L. Caplan (Editor) - Contributor
- James J. McCartney (Editor) - Contributor
- Dominic A. Sisti (Editor) - Contributor
Publication
2004-06-01 - Georgetown University Press
Language
English
Word Count
77,750 words, Guess
Page Count
311 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8831117M
- ISBN-139781589010147
- ISBN-101589010140
- OCLC Control Number53020380
- OCLC Control Numberhealthdiseaseill0000unse
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003019797
- LibraryThing4695100
- Goodreads1563420
Classifications
- LCCR723 .H398 2004
Description
Brings together classic and contemporary thinkers to examine the history, state, and future of ever-changing "concepts" in medicine. Divided into four parts--Historical Discussions; Characterizing Health, Disease, and Illness; Clinical Applications of Health and Disease; and Normalcy, Genetic Disease, and Enhancement: The Future of the Concepts of Health and Disease--the reader can see the evolutionary arc of medical concepts from the Greek physician Galen of Pergamum (ca. 150 CE) who proposed that "the best doctor is also a philosopher," to contemporary discussions of the genome and morality. The editors have recognized a crucial need for a deeper integration of medicine and philosophy with each other, particularly in an age of dynamically changing medical science--and what it means, medically, philosophically, to be human.
First Sentence
NOW IN REFERENCE TO the genesis of the humours, I do not know that any one could add anything wiser than what has been said by Hippocrates, Aristotle, Praxagoras, Philotimus and many other among the Ancients.
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