LEADER 04468nam 22006015 450 001 9910988391903321 005 20250325121211.0 010 $a9783031812576 010 $a3031812573 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-81257-6 035 $a(CKB)38111267500041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-81257-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31974426 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31974426 035 $a(OCoLC)1524423731 035 $a(EXLCZ)9938111267500041 100 $a20250325d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAnalytical Philosophy of Medicine $eScientific Philosophy and Philosophy of Medicine /$fby Lucien Karhausen 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (XXVII, 451 p.) 225 1 $aPhilosophy and Medicine,$x2215-0080 ;$v151 311 08$a9783031812569 311 08$a3031812565 327 $aIntroduction -- Chapter 1 The Logical Roots of Medicine -- Chapter 2 Intrinsic Negativities: The Ontological Roots of Medicine Suffering, Discomfort and Harm -- Chapter 3 Normalcy or Abnormalcy -- Chapter 4 Explanation -- Chapter 5 Causation and Aetiology -- Chapter 6 Function and Medicine?s Hybrid Concepts -- Chapter 7 Prudential Objectives Medical Need and Demand -- Chapter 8 Diagnosis Clinical Epistemology -- Chapter 9 Diseases, Injuries, and Impairments -- Chapter 10 Mental Disorder -- Chapter 11 Socially Deviant Behaviour -- Chapter 12 Unexplained Physical Symptoms and Functional Disorders -- Chapter 13 Health -- Chapter 14 Preventive, Therapeutic, and Palliative Care -- Chapter 15 The Clinical Relationship. The tale of two stories -- Chapter 16 Context and Limits of Medicine -- Chapter 17 Tragedy -- Notes and References -- Bibliography. 330 $aThis book describes the philosophy of medicine as a subset of the philosophy of science. It is grounded in an epistemological bottom-up account that arises from the clinical situation, the epidemiologic and the resulting public health account. The volume offers a set of coherent beliefs that are deductively closed, which means that any statement which is logically entailed by the theory belongs to the theory. Medicine does not originate, as usually admitted, with the notion of disease inasmuch as concepts of disease, malfunction or health are evolved, sophisticated and advanced constructs. Medical norms, i.e., pathological features, are logically and conceptually prior to normal features. Following Ludwig Wittgenstein, by analogy with the way members of a family resemble each other, diseases are often what Ludwig Wittgenstein called ?family-resemblance concepts?, which manifest a similarity shared by things classified into certain groups in the way members of a family resemble each other: each shares characteristics which many but not all the others, and there are no necessary or sufficient conditions for belonging in that classification. This book analyses the confusions associated with the concept of health, and subsequently turns to medical interventions, preventive, therapeutic and palliative as well as to the caring relationship, patients? autonomy, doctors? authority, and paternalism. Finally, the epistemic, ethical, or ontological limits of medicine, are being discussed, and the final account leaves us at the end of the scale with the perspective afforded by the patient facing suffering, impairment, death and tragedy, not to mention the physician?s predicament, which give rise to the principle that undergirds them all, i.e., the value of life. 410 0$aPhilosophy and Medicine,$x2215-0080 ;$v151 606 $aMedicine$xPhilosophy 606 $aBioethics 606 $aAnalysis (Philosophy) 606 $aPhilosophy of Medicine 606 $aBioethics 606 $aAnalytic Philosophy 615 0$aMedicine$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aBioethics. 615 0$aAnalysis (Philosophy) 615 14$aPhilosophy of Medicine. 615 24$aBioethics. 615 24$aAnalytic Philosophy. 676 $a610.1 700 $aKarhausen$b Lucien$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0729389 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910988391903321 996 $aAnalytical Philosophy of Medicine$94349815 997 $aUNINA