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• Title:Health, disease, and illness : concepts in medicine / Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney, Dominic A. Sisti, editors ; with a foreword by Edmund D. Pellegrino.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Caplan, Arthur L.
  McCartney, James J.
  Sisti, Dominic A.
  
• Published/Created:Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2004.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W61 .H43417 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medicine--Philosophy.
  Health--Philosophy.
  Diseases--Philosophy.
  
• Medical Subjects: Philosophy, Medical.
  Disease.
  
• Description:xiv, 311 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
  
• Summary: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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1589010140 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Foreword : renewing medicine's basic concepts / Edmund D. Pellegrino
  1. From On the natural faculties II, VIII / Galen
  2. Diseases of the soul / Maimonides
  3. Prometheus's vulture : the renaissance fashioning of gout / Roy Porter and G. S. Rousseau
  4. Report on the diseases and physical peculiarities of the Negro race / Samuel A. Cartwright
  5. normal and the pathological - introduction to the problem / Georges Canguilhem
  6. myth of mental illness / Thomas S. Szasz
  7. need for a new medical model : a challenge for biomedicine / George L. Engel
  8. When do symptoms become a disease? / Robert A. Aronowitz
  9. On the distinction between disease and illness / Christopher Boorse
  10. Malady : a new treatment of disease / K. Danner Clouser, Charles M. Culver and Bernard Gert
  11. Health : a comprehensive concept / Roberto Mordacci and Richard Sobel
  12. distinction between mental and physical illness / R. E. Kendell
  13. "unnaturalness" of aging - give me reason to live! / Arthur L. Caplan
  14. Diagnosing and defining disease / Winston Chiong
  15. "Ambiguous sex" - or ambivalent medicine? / Alice Domurat Dreger
  16. discovery of hyperkinesis : notes on the medicalization of deviant behavior / Peter Conrad
  17. Suffering and the social construction of illness : the delegitimation of illness experience in chronic fatigue syndrome / Norma C. Ware
  18. premenstrual syndrome : a brief history / John T. E. Richardson
  19. politics of menopause : the "discovery" of a deficiency disease / Frances B. McCrea
  20. Aging, culture, and the framing of Alzheimer disease / Martha Holstein
  21. medicalization of aesthetic surgery / Sander Gilman
  22. quest for medical normalcy - who needs it? / George C. Williams
  23. concept of genetic disease / David Magnus
  24. Concepts of disease after the human genome project / Eric T. Juengst
  25. From "enhancing cognition in the intellectually intact" / Peter J. Whitehouse, Eric T. Juengst, Maxwell Mehlman and Thomas H. Murray
  26. Treatment, enhancement, and the ethics of neurotherapeutics / Paul Root Wolpe
  27. What's morally wrong with eugenics? / Arthur L. Caplan.