Titlebook: Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine; Thomas Schramme,Steven Edwards Reference work 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)

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Mental Disorders as Genuine Medical Conditionss genuine medical disorders. Yet the question of whether psychological conditions such as feelings, thoughts, and actions can be medical disorders remains a matter of intense controversy. To resolve whether psychological conditions can be genuine medical disorders requires an analysis of the meaning

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Curing and Healing: Two Goals of Medicine thinking about the dichotomy: rational vs. irrational, the meaning of curing and healing as experienced by patients and practitioners, and the relationship between curing and healing in the practice of medical care. It is argued that while the distinction between curing and healing is not a univers

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Illness and Its Experience: The Patient Perspectivecribe its salient features. Using a phenomenological framework, the chapter looks at the physical and social world of the ill person and at changes to self-identity, time, and death. The chapter opens with Toombs’ definition of illness as a series of losses. It then turns to examine the experience o

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Goals of Medicineof the proper use of medical means. Two approaches are distinguished: first, a teleological approach, which sees medicine as a practice with an inherent telos and second, a consensual approach, which aims at assembling a list of goals of medicine that are identified in a deliberative process. This c

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Suffering: Harm to Bodies, Minds, and Personsman agency, loss or threat to an individual’s value system, or as an experienced negative feeling. There are several types of (human) suffering. Suffering has been studied as a bodily, a mental, a social, and as an existential or spiritual experience. Suffering is frequently considered to be persona

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Pain as a Subjective and Objective Phenomenon. Pain confronts us with basic questions such as the tension between an objective and a subjective approach, the concept of brain disease, human consciousness, and the relationship between body and mind. In this contribution, pain is placed in the context of the philosophy of medicine. Attention wil

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Death as Biological Categoryife support and brain-injured patients who are in a permanent vegetative state. The traditional way of determining death centered on the cardiorespiratory system: a patient was declared dead when breathing and heartbeat had stopped. Advances in medical technology, such as artificial ventilation and