ISSN 2367-4377 (Print)  
ISSN 2940-3936 (Online)

Usually, in academic circles the relationship between medicine and philosophy is much like philosophy's role in art, technology, and science in general: Philosophers are allowed and even expected to make certain pronouncements on these fi elds from the outside. The Studies in Medical Philosophy (SMP) book series aims at putt ing philosophy and medicine in the perspective of interdependence: The series provides opportunity both to views which discuss how medicine can benefit from philosophy and to those showing how philosophy is able to be enriched by medicine. The possible need of philosophy in medicine will be searched in terms of elucidation and stimulation of certain aspects of medical research and clinical practice by philosophical heritage such as ethics, epistemology, logic, ontology, social philosophy, and philosophical anthropology. On the other hand, medicine is believed to be a valuable and unique resource of individual cases and statistical tendencies for refl ection and further conclusions in philosophical fi elds. SMP is open to various philosophical approaches, but the editors hope to encourage especially the involvement of authors within the phenomenological movement.

Among the areas of special interest are:

  • Conceptual framework of health and disease
  • Causality and pathological mechanisms
  • Holistic approaches to the human being
  • The role of patient’s self-awareness in the healing process
  • Moral issues in clinical practice and medical research
  • The importance of logic and epistemology in diagnostics, therapy, and prognosis
  • Philosophical dimensions of patient safety
  • Social and legal concerns at the crossroads of medicine and philosophy
     

The series editors:

Dr. Alexander L. Gungov is Professor of Logic and Continental Philosophy at the School of Philosophy, University of Sofia and Director of the M.A. and Ph.D. Program in “Philosophy Taught in English”; he is editor of Sofi a Philosophical Review. Dr. Gungov is the author of Logic in Medicine and Logic of Deception.

Dr. Friedrich C. Luft is Professor of Medicine at the Charité Medical Faculty and senior research group leader at the Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany. He currently directs the Experimental and Clinical Research Center. Dr. Luft was educated in the United States and focusses on teaching clinical medicine and research.

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By examining Kuhn's ideas on paradigmatic shifts, Koumparoudis offers insights into the two models of medical reasoning: the biomedical and the humanistic.

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In this book the philosopher Dustin Peone offers reflections on ten literary classics set during plague times.

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This is an exciting, but difficult, season for the practice of medicine. The effects of corporate transformation on the practice are part of a larger cultural crisis. The arena of medicine is a proving ground for our responses to this crisis, because it is so intimately and immediately related ...

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Dmitry A. Balalykin

Galen on Apodictics

This book is dedicated to one of the topical issues of the history and philosophy of medicine—the analysis of the research method of Galen of Pergamon, an outstanding physician of Antiquity (2nd century AD). Galen's works, on the one hand, were the outcome of the Hippocratic tradition and its ...

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This book is a must-read for anyone interested in transforming the impersonal character of the medical experience into a personalized, relational, spiritual, and holistic dialog about human health. It promotes a holistic vision of the doctor-patient relationship, a medicine that ought to be ...

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Jean-Pierre Clero

Rethinking Medical Ethics

In this unique study, Jean-Pierre Clero examines medical ethics from a philosophical perspective. Based on the thoughts of great philosophers, he develops a theory of medical ethics that focuses on the values of intimacy.

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The Science of Cookery and the Art of Eating Well is a philosophical and historical reflection on food and dining in human culture. It includes discussions of the nature of the first meals as found in Greek literature and the philosophy of history of Giambattista Vico, the Roman cookbook of ...

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Alexander Gungov

Patient Safety

In our time of well-publicized health care travails, in the USA and the UK and elsewhere, matters of financing too often subsume the dimension of patient care. In his latest book, Alexander L. Gungov studies a vital but neglected aspect of patient safety. Of the thousands of medical errors ...

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In this timely study, Jean Buttigieg demonstrates the necessity to make it a legal principle of international law that the human genome is a common heritage of mankind. In 1997, the UNESCO General Conference declared the human genome a common heritage of humankind. This declaration was ...

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David Låg Tomasi

Medical Philosophy

This innovative book concentrates on the important distinction between philosophy of medicine and medical philosophy, by expanding the focus from ‘knowing that’ of the first term to the ‘knowing how’ of the latter. Thus, the idea of patient and provider self-discovery becomes integral ...

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