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  • Health and Disease

    Experimental Philosophy of Medicine

    by Somogy Varga, Andrew James Latham, Edouard Machery ...
    Series series Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
    The concepts of health and disease are fundamental to medical research, healthcare, and public health, and philosophers have long sought to clarify their meaning and implications. Increasingly, it is suggested that progress in this area could be advanced by integrating empirical methods with philosophical reflection. This Element explores the emerging field of experimental philosophy of medicine ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry

    A Philosophical Analysis

    by Somogy Varga ...
    After its unparalleled rise and expansion over the past century, medicine is increasingly criticized both as a science and clinical practice for lacking scientific rigor, for contributing to overmedicalization, and for failing to offer patient-centered care. This criticism highlights serious challenges which indicate that the scope and societal role of medicine are likely to be altered in the 21st ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal

    by Somogy Varga ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    Authenticity has become a widespread ethical ideal that represents a way of dealing with normative gaps in contemporary life. This ideal suggests that one should be true to oneself and lead a life expressive of what one takes oneself to be. However, many contemporary thinkers have pointed out that the ideal of authenticity has increasingly turned into a kind of aestheticism and egoistic self ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Naturalism, interpretation, and mental disorder

    by Somogy Varga ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
    The Philosophy of Psychiatry is a unique area of research because the nature of the subject matter leads to quite distinct methodological issues. Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder is an original new work focusing on the challenges we face when trying to interpret and understand mental illness. The book integrates a hermeneutical perspective, and shows how such an approach can reveal ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Dimensions of Practical Necessity

    “Here I Stand. I Can Do No Other."

    Edited by Katharina Bauer, Somogy Varga, Corinna Mieth ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This collection of essays provides the first systematic investigation of practical necessity and offers novel perspectives on this intriguing phenomenon. While debates on necessity often take place in the realm of metaphysics, there is a form of necessity that is pertinent to practical philosophy. “Here I stand. I can do no other,” a phrase habitually attributed to Martin Luther, is often ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Scaffolded Minds

    Integration and Disintegration

    by Somogy Varga ...
    Series series Philosophical Psychopathology
    A comprehensive account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders.In Scaffolded Minds, Somogy Varga offers a novel account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders. The book is part of the growing philosophical engagement with empirically informed philosophy of mind, which studies the interfaces between philosophy and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Care & Cure

    An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine

    by Jacob Stegenga ...
    The author of Medical Nihilism examines the philosophical complications and controversies underlying medicine.The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferences, and policies that are often ... Read more

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  • Gut Feminism

    by Elizabeth A. Wilson ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    In Gut Feminism Elizabeth A. Wilson urges feminists to rethink their resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data. Turning her attention to the gut and depression, she asks what conceptual and methodological innovations become possible when feminist theory isn’t so instinctively antibiological. She examines research on anti-depressants, placebos, transference, phantasy, eating disorders and ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Brain's Body

    Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics

    by Victoria Pitts-Taylor ...
    In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor brings feminist and critical theory to bear on new development in neuroscience to demonstrate how power and inequality are materially and symbolically entangled with neurobiological bodies. Pitts-Taylor is interested in how the brain interacts with and is impacted by social structures, especially in regard to race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability, ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Philosophy of Medicine

    by Fred Gifford, John Woods, Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard ...
    Series Book 16 - Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
    This volume covers a wide range of conceptual, epistemological and methodological issues in the philosophy of science raised by reflection upon medical science and practice. Several chapters examine such general meta-scientific concepts as discovery, reduction, theories and models, causal inference and scientific realism as they apply to medicine or medical science in particular. Some discuss ... Read more

    $189.89 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry

    Edited by KWM Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard Gipps, George Graham, John Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini, Tim Thornton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition. This has become only more important as we have witnessed the growth and power of the pharmaceutical industry, accompanied by developments in the neurosciences. However, too few practising psychiatrists are familiar with the literature in this area. The ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry

    The Birth of Postpsychiatry

    by Bradley Lewis ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Interesting and fresh-represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead."--Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine"Remarkable in its breadth-an interesting and valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature of the philosophy of psychiatry."--Christian Perring, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD