The end of modern medicine : biomedical science under a microscope / / Laurence Foss

• Autore: Foss Laurence
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Disciplina: 610/.1
• Soggetto topico: Medicine - Philosophy; Medical ethics
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-321) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Medical Ontology, the Post-Modern Challenge, and its Historical Roots -- Medical Ontology -- The Question Never Asked -- The Organic Solution -- The Motive Faculty of the Soul -- Pascal’s Question -- The Path Not Taken -- A Response: The Beginnings -- Sciences of Complexity -- Post-Cartesian thought World -- National Institute of Warts and All -- The Ghost in the Machine -- The Levels Of Argument -- Founding Myth -- The Shadow of Subjectivity -- The Anxious Heart -- Late Night Thoughts While Listening to Mahler -- Complementary Medicine -- The Seeds of a New Revolution -- For Want of a Vocabulary -- The Birth of Psychobiology -- Paradigm Shift -- The Placebo Meta-Effect and Infomedical Science -- Nature as Self-Referential and Biocultural Medicine -- Revolutionizing the Foundations: Modern Science under a Microscope -- The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science -- The Primordial Fireball, a Work in Progress? -- A Successor Scientific Medical Model -- Humanizing Medical Science: The Systems Loop -- Subjectivity and the Messengers of Information -- Epilog -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Note on Supporting Center
• Sommario/riassunto: The End of Modern Medicine chronicles the work of a small, influential band of medical theorists and clinicians who over the past decade have sought to redress the physical fundamentalism of the biomedical model that shaped their professional training. Laurence Foss challenges the prevailing medical model whereby mind and body are essentially separated, and charts a new "psychobiological" course. Asking fresh questions, raising new possibilities, probing long-established preconceptions, Foss presents a radically reconfigured medical model. This model accounts for the full range of findings in the experimental literature, most notably those surfacing over the past quarter century in psychophysiological studies which show a correlation between psychosocial variables and disease susceptibility that are in line with what more basic sciences tell us about the behavior of material systems and the nature of scientific explanation. Foss also critically analyzes the regulative ideals of today's medical research community and puts modern science itself, from which these ideals derive, under a microscope.
• Titolo autorizzato: The end of modern medicine
• ISBN: 9780791489802; 0791489809; 9780585450278; 0585450277
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910973194403321
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