Published December, 2010
By Lennart Nordenfelt and L.Y Nordenfelt
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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Questions concerning the notion of quality of life, its definition, and its ap plications for purposes of assessment and measurement in social and medical contexts, have been widely discussed in Scandinavia during the last ten years.

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Published December, 2010
By R. B. Baker, R. Porter and R.B. Baker
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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This volume has emerged from papers delivered at a conference on the History of Medical Ethics, held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, 1 December, 1989.

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Published December, 2010
By W.B. Bondeson and J.W. Jones
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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This collection provides a philosophical and historical analysis of the development and current situation of managed care. Its special feature is its depth of analysis as the philosophical, social, and economic issues of managed care are developed.

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Published December, 2010
By Josef Seifert
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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At all times physicians were bound to pursue not only medical tasks, but to reflect also on the many anthropological and metaphysical aspects of their discipline, such as on the nature of life and death, of health and sickness, and above all on the vital ethical dimensions of their practice.

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Published December, 2010
By Laurence B. McCullough
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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This volume introduces a new subseries of Philosophy and Medicine, Classics of Medical Ethics. Each volume will also contain a guide to the primary and major secondary Hterature, to facilitate teaching and scholarship in bioethics, philosophy of medicine, and history of medicine.

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Published November, 2010
By Harold Kincaid and Jennifer McKitrick
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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This volume approaches the philosophy of medicine from the broad naturalist perspective. This holds that philosophy must be continuous with, constrained by, and relevant to empirical results of the natural and social sciences. The upshot is a unique volume that ties medicine to contemporary issues in philosophy of science and metaphysics.

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Published November, 2010
By J. Tao Lai Po-Wah
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Hinkley 1 Taking Finitude Seriously in a Chinese Cultural Context Across the world, health care policy is a moral and political challenge. In countries such as China, there are in addition stark regional differences in the quality and availability of health care, posing additional challenges to public policy-making.

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Published October, 2010
By W.E Stempsey and William Stempsey
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The idea of preparing a new critical edition of Elisha Bartlett's Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science was suggested to me several years ago by Dr. H. I was able to find many of Bartlett's published works and other nineteenth-century medical literature there, and the entire library staff provided quick and able research assistance.

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Published October, 2010
By Christopher Kaczor
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Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics treats a number of distinct moral questions and ?nds their answer in the dignity of the person, both as an agent and as a patient (in the sense of the recipient of action).

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Published October, 2010
By Sarah-Vaughan Brakman and Darlene Fozard Weaver
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The strength of this collection of essays is its careful consideration, from a variety of perspectives within the Catholic tradition, of the practice of embryo adoption.

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