Book contents
- Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry
- Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Challenges to Medicine at the End of Its “Golden Age”
- Chapter 2 Toward a Normative Philosophy of Medicine
- Chapter 3 Science and Medicine
- Chapter 4 Inquiry in Medical Science
- Chapter 5 Understanding in Medicine
- Chapter 6 The Aim of Medicine I
- Chapter 7 The Aim of Medicine II
- Chapter 8 Rethinking the Challenges
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Chapter 7 - The Aim of Medicine II
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2024
- Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry
- Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Challenges to Medicine at the End of Its “Golden Age”
- Chapter 2 Toward a Normative Philosophy of Medicine
- Chapter 3 Science and Medicine
- Chapter 4 Inquiry in Medical Science
- Chapter 5 Understanding in Medicine
- Chapter 6 The Aim of Medicine I
- Chapter 7 The Aim of Medicine II
- Chapter 8 Rethinking the Challenges
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
The chapter is dedicated to critically engaging contemporary accounts. It explores views from Pellegrino (2001), Broadbent (2019), and four "list approaches" (Callahan et al. 1996; Brody and Miller 1998; Brülde 2001; Boorse 2016). This is a rather considerable amount of material to delve into in a single chapter, but the aim of the reconstruction is not to do justice to all the details of these accounts; rather it is to focus on examining to what extent they are able to overcome or bypass the challenges faced in Chapter 6 when working towards the final iteration of the Autonomy Thesis. Subjecting these competing views to critical scrutiny is not merely an essentially adversarial procedure, but also a means to assist in framing the proposal presented in the chapter. By inspecting the most relevant aspects of these accounts in light of the challenges considered in Chapter 6, the chapter also provides further reinforcement for the Autonomy Thesis by considering paths that our inquiry chose not to take.
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- Science, Medicine, and the Aims of InquiryA Philosophical Analysis, pp. 163 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024