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Zustand: good. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. Hardcover. vi,236 pp. Library stamps. - I. Introduction.- 1. Medicine.- 2. Philosophy.- 3. The book.- Acknowledgements.- II. Cultural Infusions in the Philosophy of Medicine.- 1. Introduction.- 2. An American ontology.- 2.1. General survey.- 2.2. What place for science?.- 2.3. The riddle of "ought" and "is".- 2.4. Medical practice revisited.- 3. The case of anthropological medicine.- 3.1.European sources.- 3.2. Beyond the body.- 3.3. The avenue of morality.- 4. Getting the record straight.- 4.1. The fruits of the past.- 4.2. Towards a realistic view of disease.- 4.3. Biology reinstated.- 4.4. Facts and values: marriage or divorce?.- 5. Conclusions.- III. Regular Versus Alternative Medicine.- 1. Introduction.- 2. How not to think about science and philosophy.- 2.1. Getting science straight, the case of clinical ecology.- 2.2. Getting philosophy straight, the case of epidemiology.- 3. What is special about science.- 4. Interlude: how to proceed?.- 5. The scientific status of homeopathy.- 5.1. Preview.- 5.2. Homeopathy as a grand theory: Vithoulkas.- 5.3. Against theory: Moessinger.- 5.4. Potentization and the similia principle.- 5.5. Testing effects of homeopathic drugs.- 5.6. The vagaries of controlled experimentation.- 6. Psychic or spiritual healing.- 7. Discussion.- IV. Concepts of Health and Disease.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Health and disease in a biological perspective.- 2.1. Against normativism: Boorse.- 2.2. Towards a sensible biology: Boorse's views refuted.- 3. The philosophy of normativism.- 3.1. Preliminaries.- 3.2. The clinical perspective: Engelhardt.- 3.3. Normative laboratory medicine: Grasbeck.- 4. Towards a new research program.- 4.1. Logical puzzles and their consequences.- 4.2. Making the best of science.- 5. The interplay of science, common sense and philosophy.- 6. Afterthoughts.- V. Mind and Body in Science and Philosophy.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The philosophical agenda.- 2.1. The spectre of integration.- 2.2. How to proceed?.- 3. The mental and the physical: five philosophical views.- 3.1. Psychophysical parallelism revived: R. Miller.- 3.2. The interface of mind and matter: Popper & Eccles.- 3.3. The eminence of matter: Bunge.- 3.4. Mentalism in new garbs: Sperry.- 3.5. The reality of systems: Von Bertalanffy.- 3.6. Afterthoughts.- 4. A science of the mental?.- 4.1. Idiosyncracies of the mental.- 4.2. The failure of integrationism.- 5. The primacy of human existence: phenomenology.- 5.1. Overview.- 5.2. Justifying the primacy of human existence: J.H. van den Berg.- 5.3. The ambiguity of human existence: Merleau-Ponty.- 5.4. Moving man in science and philosophy: Buytendijk.- 6. Things which don't fit.- 7. Discussion.- VI. Mind and Body in Medicine.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The mental suppressed: biological psychiatry.- 2.1. Plain biology or a covert philosophy?.- 2.2. The conflation of dichotomies.- 2.3. Genetic puzzles.- 2.4. Conclusion.- 3. Will psychology help?.- 3.1.Science or morality?.- 3.2. Existential commitment.- 4. The psychosomatic connection.- 4.1. Towards integration?.- 4.2. Historical notes on stress.- 4.3. The meaning of "stress".- 4.4. Nonspecificity, a testable issue?.- 4.5. Methodological interlude.- 4.6. The specifics of psychosomatics.- 5. The limits of integration.- 5.1. The biopsychosocial solution.- 5.2. Holistic medicine.- 6. The philosophical turn.- 6.1. Playing with phenomenology.- 6.2. Afterthoughts on psychoanalysis and hermeneutics.- 7. Conclusions.- VII. Theses.- References. Condition : good copy. ISBN 9789024736737. Keywords : PHILOSOPHY, medical ethics.

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