Concepts of health and disease: comments on chapter 5 of Engelhardt's The Foundations of Bioethics, 2nd edition.
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Tris Engelhardt's The Foundations of Bioethics stands out in its field for the amount of sustained attention it pays to the epistemological foundations of ethics. Among those working in the field of bioethics, no one has devoted more attention to those foundations, and in particular to the matrix of concepts associated with medical elassification, diagnosis, explanation and treatment. This is the principal focus of chapter five of Foundations, and will be the principal of focus of these comments.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Reason papers
دوره 22 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997