Focusing on the philosophical debates surrounding health justice, this book provides students with clear definitions of key concepts such as health, disease, and illness. It explores various theories of justice while constructing a specific normative argument within the health justice discourse, making it an essential resource for those studying philosophy in medicine, healthcare, and public health.
Ideal for students in the philosophy of medicine, healthcare and public health, this book offers an introduction to the philosophical debates around health justice. It presents clear conceptual definitions of health, disease and illness and the various theories of justice, developing a specific normative argument in the debate on health justice.
This comprehensive, multi-authored handbook in the philosophy of medicine addresses key conceptual issues related to social, political, and ethical aspects of health care. Covering over 70 topics, it features contributions from experts across various disciplines and serves as a vital resource for both laypeople and professionals in the field.
This work sets the stage regarding debates about paternalism and health care for years to come. The anthology is organized around four parts: i) The concept of paternalism and theoretical issues regarding the idea of anti-paternalism, ii) strategies for justifying different forms of paternalism, iii) paternalism in psychiatry and psychotherapy, iv) paternalism and public health, and v) paternalism and reproductive medicine. Medical paternalism was arguably one of the main drivers of debates in medical ethics and has led to a wide acknowledgement of the value of patient autonomy. However, more recent developments in health care, such as the increasing significance of public health measures and the commercialization of medical services, have led to new social circumstances and hence to the need to rethink issues regarding paternalism. This work provides an invaluable source for many scholars and practitioners, since it deals in new and original ways with one of the main and oldest issue in health care ethics.
Philosophy and psychiatry share many topics and problems. For example, the „solutions“ of the psychiatry of the philosophical body-soul problem have direct effects on the self-image of the discipline. Despite these obvious overlappings, and unlike the English-speaking countries, interdisciplinary research on „philosophical psychopathology“ has been scarce in Germany. The current anthology closes these gaps, because the authors - renowned experts as well as young scientists, whose new approaches open promising perspectives - come from both disciplines. The individual contributions deal with philosophical debates as they arise within the context of psychiatric theory and practice.