Health, Disease, and Illness
Subtitle: Concepts in Medicine
Contributors: Edmund D. Pellegrino (Foreword); Arthur L. Caplan (Editor); James J. McCartney (Editor); Dominic A. Sisti (Editor)
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781589010147
Subjects: Bio-ethics; History of medicine; Philosophy; Health Policy; Diseases; Medical / Nursing; Medicine; Medical; History; Ethics; Health
First sentence: NOW IN REFERENCE TO the genesis of the humours, I do not know that any one could add anything wiser than what has been said by Hippocrates, Aristotle, Praxagoras, Philotimus and many other among the Ancients.
Description: Brings together classic and contemporary thinkers to examine the history, state, and future of ever-changing "concepts" in medicine. Divided into four parts--Historical Discussions; Characterizing Health, Disease, and Illness; Clinical Applications of Health and Disease; and Normalcy, Genetic Disease, and Enhancement: The Future of the Concepts of Health and Disease--the reader can see the evolutionary arc of medical concepts from the Greek physician Galen of Pergamum (ca. 150 CE) who proposed that "the best doctor is also a philosopher," to contemporary discussions of the genome and morality. The editors have recognized a crucial need for a deeper integration of medicine and philosophy with each other, particularly in an age of dynamically changing medical science--and what it means, medically, philosophically, to be human.