Concept
Philosophy of medicine
Overview
The philosophy of medicine is the applied philosophy that examines issues of theory, research, and practice in medicine and medical sciences, mainly by assessing their claims to knowledge and claims of explanation. By examining concepts that underlie medical practice, the philosophy of medicine provides some foundation to bioethics. And by way of debates on causation and scientific explanation, the philosophy of medicine has contributed to the philosophy of science. Although even the ancients, including Hippocrates, evoked some philosophy of medicine, thorough scholarship on relevant questions are most recognizable since the 1800s. In the 1990s, some argued that the philosophy of medicine had developed into a distinct discipline. By the late 2010s, the philosophy of medicine had gained appreciable autonomy and recognition, manifesting dedicated courses, journals, books, textbooks, and professional organizations.
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After this examination we will find that nothing remains in the idea of body, except that it is something extended in length, breadth, and depth; and this something is comprised in our idea of space, not only of that which is full of body, but even of what is called void space.
René Descartes, Selections from the Principles of Philosophy
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Similarly, the study of the human mind, which was a part of philosophy, has now been separated from philosophy and has become the science of psychology. Thus, to a great extent, the uncertainty of philosophy is more apparent than real: those questions which are already capable of definite answers are placed in the sciences, while those only to which, at present, no definite answer can be given, remain to form the…
Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
States what Philosophy of medicine is.
_Cogita in te, praeter Animum, nihil esse mirabile._ A DISCOURSE OF A METHOD, For the wel-guiding of Reason; AND The discovery of Truth in the SCIENCES. _If this Discourse seem too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six parts. In the first, are divers Considerations touching the Sciences. In the second, the principall Rules of that Method which the Author hath studyed.
René Descartes, A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences
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Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
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- Evidence-based medicine
- Pathogen
- The BMJ
- University of Notre Dame Press
- The Free Dictionary
- Evidence-based practice
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