Main description:

A definitive and authoritative guide to a vibrant and growing discipline in current philosophy, The Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine presents an overview of the issues facing contemporary philosophy of medicine, the research methods required to understand them and a trajectory for the discipline's future.

Written by world leaders in the discipline, this companion addresses the ontological, epistemic, and methodological challenges facing philosophers of medicine today, from the debate between evidence-based and person-centered medicine, medical humanism, and gender medicine, to traditional issues such as disease, health, and clinical reasoning and decision-making. Practical and forward-looking, it also includes a detailed guide to research sources, a glossary of key terms, and an annotated bibliography, as well as an introductory survey of research methods and discussion of new research directions emerging in response to the rapid changes in modern medicine.

"Philosophy needs medicine', Hillel Braude argues, 'to become more relevant'. By showing how modern medicine provides philosophers with a rich source of material for investigating issues facing contemporary society, The Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine introduces the opportunities medicine offers philosophers together with the resources and skills required to contribute to contemporary debates and discussions.

Contents:

List of Contributors
Part I: Introduction: Philosophy of Medicine, Research Problems and Methods
1. Introduction: Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine, James A. Marcum (Baylor University, USA)
2. Research Problems and Methods in the Philosophy of Medicine, Michael Loughlin (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Robyn Bluhm (Michigan State University, USA), and Mona Gupta (University of Montreal, Canada)
Part II: Current Research and Future Directions
3. Disease in the Era of Genomic and Molecular Medicine, Marianne Boenink (University of Twente, Netherlands)
4. Philosophy of Epidemiology, Alexander Broadbent (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
5. Justification of Evidence-Based Medicine Epistemology, Jeremy Howick (University of Oxford, UK)
6. Evolutionary Medicine: Philosophical Aspects, Michael Ruse (Florida State University, USA)
7. Medical Humanism
Part 1: Philosophical and Historical Underpinnings, Alfred I. Tauber (Boston University, USA)
Part 2: Inspirations of the Twentieth Century, Lydie Fiolova (University of Edinburgh, UK)
8. Phenomenology and Medicine, Fredrik Svenaeus (Soedertoern University, Sweden)
9. Gender Medicine and Phenomenological Embodiment, Tania Gergel (King's College London, UK)
10. Patient and Person Centered Medicine: Does the Center Hold?, James A. Marcum (Baylor University, USA)
11. Health and Disease, Rachel Cooper (Lancaster University, UK)
12. Causation in Medicine, Brendan Clarke (University College London, UK) and Federica Russo (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
13. Clinical Reasoning and Knowing, Hillel Braude (The Mifne Center, Rosh Pinna, Israel)
14. New Directions in Philosophy of Medicine, Jacob Stegenga (University of Victoria, Canada), Ashley Graham Kennedy (Florida Atlantic University, USA), Serife Tekin (Daemen College, USA), Saana Jukola (Bielefeld University, Germany), and Robyn Bluhm (Michigan State University, USA)
Part III: Research Resources
Glossary of Key Terms
Research Guide
Annotated Bibliography
Index