Meaning and Medicine: A Reader in the Philosophy of Health Care

A chief aim of this resource is to rekindle interest in seeing health care not solely as a set of practices so problematic as to require ethical analysis by philosophers and other scholars, but as a field whose scrutiny is richly rewarding for the traditional concerns of philosophy.

Author: Hilde Lindemann Nelson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08/17/1999
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 10.12h x 7.10w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780415919166

About the Author
James Lindemann Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. Hilde Lindemann Nelson is Director of the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and is editor of Feminism and Families (Routledge 1997). They are the authors of The Patient in the Family (Routledge 1995) and Alzheimer's: Answers to Hard Questions for Families (1996).