{"product_id":"9789402422528","title":"Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine","description":"\u003ch3\u003eReligion and Philosophy Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences Reference Module Humanities\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eHandbook of the Philosophy of Medicine\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThomas Schramme | Mary Jean Walker\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eMedical \/ Ethics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the second edition of Springer's first wide-ranging, multi-authored handbook on philosophy of medicine. It covers the underlying conceptual issues of many important social, political and ethical issues in health care and, as such, provides a single source of information for this far-ranging and still developing field. This new edition of this authoritative handbook includes topics that have gained momentum in the last couple of years. This second edition introduces and develops nearly one hundred topics, concepts, and issues in the field. It is written by distinguished specialists from multiple disciplines, including philosophy, health sciences, nursing, sociology, political theory, and medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMany complicated social and ethical issues in health care are based on conceptual problems, most prominently on the definitions of health and disease, or on epistemological issues regarding causality or diagnosis. Philosophy is the discipline that deals with such conceptual, metaphysical, epistemological, methodological, and axiological matters. This handbook covers all the central concepts in medicine, such as ageing, death, disease, mental disorder, and well-being. It is an invaluable resource for health care specialists who want to be informed and stay up to date with the relevant discussions, as well as philosophers and ethicists with an interest in medicine, and members of the general public with an interest in health care and related issues. The text also advances these debates and sets the agenda for years to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Schramme is Professor of Philosophy at the \u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eLiverpool. He works mainly on theories of health and disease and on philosophical topics in psychiatry. He has also published on health justice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMary Jean Walker is Lecturer in philosophy at La Trobe University. Her work in the philosophy of medicine includes contributions to debate on the concept of disease and investigation of the epistemology of personalised medicine. She also has research interests in bioethics, especially emerging technology bioethics and applications of medical phenomenology\u003cstrong\u003e. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30 September 2025\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Netherlands\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9789402422528\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDigital delivered electronically\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e1754\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51561702719628,"sku":"9789402422528","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789402422528.jpg?v=1784812844","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789402422528","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}