Philosophy of medicine 2017: reviewing the situation

AbstractIn this introduction to a special subsection ofTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics comprising separate reviews of the SpringerHandbook of the Philosophy of Medicine,The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine, andThe Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine, I compare the three texts with respect to their overall organization and their approach to the relation between the science and the art of medicine. I then indicate two areas that merit more explicit attention in developing a comprehensive philosophy of medicine going forward: health economics and systematic relations within the field as a whole. The reviews that follow speak for themselves.
Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research