Mary Ann Gardell Cutter

Reframing Disease Contextually (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume will be of interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers, medical professionals, historians of western medicine, and health policymakers. The book provides an overview of key debates in the history of modern western medicine on the nature, knowledge, and value of disease. It includes case studies of e.g. AIDS, genetic disease, and gendered disease.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 195
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401701556
• Artikelnr.: 44182705

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2. The Development of Disease: The Case of Aids.- 3. The Nature of Disease.- 4. Knowing Disease.- 5. Knowing and Treating Disease.- 6. The Role of Values in Disease.- 7. A Geography of Values in Disease.- 8. The Context of Disease.- 9. Concepts of Genetic Disease.- 10. Concepts of Gendered Disease.- 11. Conclusion.- References.

Rezensionen

From the reviews: "Mary Ann Cutter's 'Reframing Disease Contextually' draws together a number of themes in philosophy of medicine in order to make the case that disease should be understood contextually and locally. ... Overall, this book makes an important case for viewing disease as 'contextual' ... the examples of contextualism analyzed by Cutter are a useful and powerful way of making this point. ... All in All, this book is well worth reading." (Robyn Bluhm, Metapsychology Online Reviews, July, 2006)