Extentxii, 407 pages ; ; 25 cm.
Contributoredited by James A. Marcum.
Note (General)Note on Contributors -- Part I: Introduction: Philosophy of Medicine, Research Problems and Methods -- 1. Introduction: Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine, James A. Marcum (Baylor University, USA) -- 2. Research Problems and Methods in the Philosophy of Medicine, Michael Loughlin (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Robyn Bluhm (Michigan State University, USA), and Mona Gupta (University of Montreal, Canada) -- Part II: Current Research and Future Directions -- 3. Disease in the Era of Genomic and Molecular Medicine, Marianne Boenink (University of Twente, Netherlands) -- 4. Philosophy of Epidemiology, Alexander Broadbent (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) -- 5. Justification of Evidence-Based Medicine Epistemology, Jeremy Howick (University of Oxford, UK) -- 6. Evolutionary Medicine: Philosophical Aspects, Michael Ruse (Florida State University, USA) -- 7. Medical Humanism -- Part 1: Philosophical and Historical Underpinnings, Alfred I. Tauber (Boston University, USA) -- Part 2: Inspirations of the Twentieth Century, Lydie Fiolová (University of Edinburgh, UK) -- 8. Phenomenology and Medicine, Fredrik Svenaeus (Södertörn University, Sweden) -- 9. Gender Medicine and Phenomenological Embodiment, Tania Gergel (King's College London, UK) -- 10. Patient and Person Centered Medicine: Does the Center Hold?, James A. Marcum (Baylor University, USA) -- 11. Health and Disease, Rachel Cooper (Lancaster University, UK) -- 12. Causation in Medicine, Brendan Clarke (University College London, UK) and Federica Russo (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) -- 13. Clinical Reasoning and Knowing, Hillel Braude (The Mifne Center, Rosh Pinna, Israel) -- 14. New Directions in Philosophy of Medicine, Jacob Stegenga (University of Victoria, Canada), Ashley Graham Kennedy (Florida Atlantic University, USA), Şerife Tekin (Daemen College, USA), Saana Jukola (Bielefeld University, Germany), and Robyn Bluhm (Michigan State University, USA) -- Part III: Research Resources -- Glossary of Key Terms -- Research Guide -- Annotated Bibliography -- Index.