Bookedited by Miriam Solomon, Jeremy R. Simon, and Harold Kincaid.
Summary: The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine is a comprehensive guide to topics in the fields of epistemology and metaphysics of medicine. It examines traditional topics such as the concept of disease, causality in medicine, the epistemology of the randomized controlled trial, the biopsychosocial model, explanation, clinical judgment and phenomenology of medicine and emerging topics, such as philosophy of epidemiology, measuring harms, the concept of disability, nursing perspectives, race and gender, the metaphysics of Chinese medicine, and narrative medicine. Each of the 48 chapters is written especially for this volume and with a student audience in mind. For pedagogy and clarity, each chapter contains an extended example illustrating the ideas discussed. This text is intended for use as a reference for students in courses in philosophy of medicine and philosophy of science, and pairs well with The Routledge Companion to Bioethics for use in medical humanities and social science courses.
Contents:
Part I : general concepts
The concept of disease / Dominic Sisti and Arthur L. Caplan
Disease, illness, and sickness / Bjorn Hofmann
Health and well-being / Daniel M. Hausman
Disability and normality / Anita Silvers
Mechanisms in medicine / Phyllis Illari
Causality and causal interference in medicine / Julian Reiss
Frequency and propensity : the interpretation of probability in causal models for medicine / Donald Gillies
Reductionism in the biomedical sciences / Holly K. Andersen
Realism and constructivism in medicine / Jeremy R. Simon
Part II : specific concepts
Birth / Christina Scèhues
Death / Steven Luper
Pain, chronic pain, and suffering / Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Measuring placebo effects / Jeremy Howick
The concept of genetic disease / Jonathan Michael Kaplan
Diagnostic categories / Annemarie Jutel
Classificatory challenges in psychopathology / Harold Kincaid
Classificatory challenges in physical disease / Mathias Brochhausen
Part III : research methods (a) evidence in medicine
The randomized controlled trial : internal and external validity ./ Adam La Caze
The hierarchy of evidence, meta-analysis, and systematic review / Robyn Bluhm
Statistical evidence and the reliability of medical research / Mattia Andreoletti and David Teira
Bayesian versus frequentist clinical trials / Cecillia Nardini
Observational research / Olaf M. Dekkers and Jane P. Vandenbroucke
Philosophy of epidemiology / Alex Broadbent
Complementary/alternative medicine and the evidence requirement / Kirsten Hansen and Klemens Kappel
Part III : research methods (b) other research methods
Models in medicine / Michael Wilde and Jon Williamson
Discovery in medicine / Brendan Clarke
Explanation in medicine / Mèael Lemoine
The case study in medicine / Rachel A. Ankeny
Values in medical research / Kirstin Borgerson
Outcome measures in medicine / Leah McClimans
Measuring harms / Jacob Stegenga
Expert consensus / Miriam Solomon
Part IV : clinical methods
Clinical judgment / Ross Upshur and Benjamin Chin-Yee
Narrative medicine / Danielle Spencer
Medical decision making : diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis / Ashley Graham Kennedy
Part V : variability and diversity
Personalized and precision medicine / Alex Gamma
Gender in medicine / Immaculada de Melo-Martâin and Kristen Intemann
Race in Medicine / Sean A. Valles
Atypical bodies in medical care / Ellen K. Feder
Part VI : perspectives
The biomedical model and the biopsychosocial model in medicine / Fred Gifford
Models in mental illness / Jacqueline Sullivan
Phenomenology and hermeneutics in medicine / Havi Carel
Evolutionary medicine / Michael Cournoyea
Philosophy of nursing : caring, holism and the nursing role(s) / Mark Risjord
Contemporary Chinese medicine and its theoretical foundations / Judith Farquhar
Double truths and the postcolonial predicament of Chinese medicine / Eric I. Karchmer
Medicine as a commodity / Carl Elliott.