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Edition: 1
Release: 2004-06-18
Publisher: The MIT Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0262182386
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine pdf
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Definitions of health and disease are of more than theoretical interest. Understanding what it means to be healthy has implications for choices in medical treatment, for ethically sound informed consent, and for accurate assessment of policies or programs. This deeper understanding can help us create more effective public policy for health and medicine. It is notable that such contentious legal initiatives as the Americans with Disability Act and the Patients' Bill of Rights fail to define adequately the medical terms on which their effectiveness depends. In Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine, Kenneth Richman develops an "embedded instrumentalist" theory of health and applies it to practical problems in health care and medicine, addressing topics that range from the philosophy of science to knee surgery."Embedded instrumenta Download Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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