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Evaluation and Explanation in the Biomedical Sciences: Proceedings of the First Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Galveston, May 9–11, 1974 |
H. Tristram Engelhardt; Stuart F. Spicker
Springer Netherlands
Evaluation and Explanation in the Biomedical Sciences: Proceedings of the First Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Galveston, May 9–11, 1974
Concepts of Function and Mechanism in Medicine and Medical Science
Authors

Stephen Toulmin

ARI Id

1674219710272_2664227

Access

Not Available Free

Pages

51-66

DOI

10.1007/978-94-010-1769-5_4

Chapter URL

https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-010-1769-5_4

Table of Contents of Book
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Front Matter
I-VI
Introduction
H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.; Stuart F. Spicker
1-7
Front Matter
9-9
Some Basic Explanations of Disease: An Historian’s Viewpoint
Lester S. King
11-27
Diseases Versus Healths: Some Legacies in the Philosophies of Modern Medical Science
Chester R. Burns
29-47
Front Matter
49-49
Concepts of Function and Mechanism in Medicine and Medical Science
Stephen Toulmin
51-66
Organs, Organisms and Disease: Human Ontology and Medical Practice
Marx W. Wartofsky
67-83
Comments on “Concepts of Function and Mechanism in Medicine and Medical Science” and “Organs, Organisms and Disease”
Patrick A. Heelan
85-93
Front Matter
95-95
How Virtues Become Vices: Values, Medicine and Social Context
Alasdair Macintyre
97-111
Moral Philosophy and Medical Perplexity: Comments on “How Virtues Become Vices”
Samuel Gorovitz
113-121
Front Matter
123-123
The Concepts of Health and Disease
H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
125-141
On Disease: Theories of Disease and the Ascription of Disease: Comments on “The Concepts of Health and Disease”
Loretta Kopelman
143-150
Front Matter
151-151
Context and Reflexivity: The Genealogy of Self
Richard M. Zaner
153-174
Comments on “Context and Reflexivity”
André Schuwer
175-180
The Lived-Body as Catalytic Agent: Reaction at the Interface of Medicine and Philosophy
Stuart F. Spicker
181-204
Comments on “The Lived-Body as Catalytic Agent”
André Schuwer
205-208
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