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This book makes Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) intelligible to those who are not familiar with the tradition and who may choose to dismiss it off-hand or to assess it negatively. Keekok Lee uses two related strategies: arguing that all science and therefore medicine cannot be understood without excavating its philosophical presuppositions and showing what those presuppositions are in the case of CCM compared with those of biomedicine.--
Medicine, Chinese --- Medicine, Chinese Traditional. --- Philosophy, Medical. --- Philosophy.
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Medical Oncology --- Philosophy, Medical --- Science --- Sciences --- Medical Philosophy --- Clinical Oncology --- Oncology, Medical --- Oncology, Clinical
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This path-breaking book reinterprets Chinese medicine using the approach of the philosophy of science in a manner that strikes common ground with biomedical science. It strips Chinese medical theory of the mystique and metaphysical pretentions that too often plague the discipline, presenting this theory as being derived from empirical observations and clinical findings. Concepts like qi and phlegm and vital organs like the shen (kidney) are interpreted, not as physical entities with defined measurable properties, but as constructs to facilitate the application of models for diagnosis and thera
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Epigenetics is currently one of the fastest-growing fields in the sciences. Epigenetic information not only controls DNA expression but links genetic factors with the environmental experiences that influence the traits and characteristics of an individual. What we eat, where we work, and how we live affects not only the activity of our genes but that of our offspring as well. This discovery has imposed a revolutionary theoretical shift on modern biology, especially on evolutionary theory. It has helped to uncover the developmental processes leading to cancer, obesity, schizophrenia, alcoholism, and aging, and to facilitate associated medial applications such as stem cell therapy and cloning. Above the Gene, Beyond Biology explores how biologists in this booming field investigate and explain living systems. Jan Baedke offers the first comprehensive philosophical discussion of epigenetic concepts, explanations, and methodologies so that we can better understand this "epigenetic turn" in the life sciences from a philosophical perspective.
Epigenetics --- Epigenomics. --- Philosophy, Medical. --- Genetics --- Methodology. --- Philosophy. --- Medical Philosophy --- Epigenetic --- Epigenomic
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Examines the history and development of osteopathy and its place in modern healthcare. Describes the complex range of skills which combine to make osteopathy a unique and effective therapy. Written by a highly regarded practitioner and teacher with over 40 years' of experience.
Osteopathic medicine. --- Osteopathic medicine --- Physician and patient. --- Osteopathic Medicine. --- Holistic Health. --- Philosophy, Medical. --- Philosophy.
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"Those who ask whether mental processes can extend beyond the brain and into the world may seem to be asking ẁhere is my mind?' Mark Rowlands instead replaces questions about the location of cognition with a process-based vision of the mind as a complex set of activities distributed across brain, body, and world. His integrative and original book demonstrates that the cognitive sciences already treat mental processes as amalgamations of disparate neural, bodily, and environmental resources. It brings a new level of precision to the case for the extended mind." John Sutton, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University" "Mark Rowlands insightfully draws from resources in both early analytic philosophy and phenomenology to defend recent conceptions of embodied and extended cognition. He presents convincing arguments to show that, at its core, intentionality involves a transcendental disclosure of the world, and then remarkably shows that the transcendental is characteristic of a mind that is an amalgamation of brain, body, and environment. He thus lays out a brilliant strategy to defeat all of the neurocentric naysayers with respect to the extended---or, in Rowland's terms, the amalgamated---mind." Shaun Gallagher, Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences, University of Central Florida and University of Hertfordshire" "In the New Science of the Mind Mark Rowlands sets out an exciting combination of embodied and extended cognition which he calls the amalgamated mind. Rowlands convincingly argues that the new science of the mind will concern itself with explaining mental processes as amalgamations of neural, bodily, and environmental processes. This book stakes out important new territory and is sure to have a major impact on the future of the field." Richard Menary, The University of Wollongong". "There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mental processes exlusively "in the head." Some think that this expanded conception of the mind will be the basis of a new science of the mind. In this book, leading philosopher Mark Rowlands investigates the conceptual foundations of this new science of the mind." "Traditional attempts to study the mind are based on the idea that mental processes---perceiving, remembering, thinking, reasoning---exist in brains; they are often described as "software" realized by the "hardware" of the brain. The new way of thinking about the mind has emerged from the confluence of various disciplines in cognitive science ranging from perceptual and developmental psychology to robotics. It emphasizes the ways in which mental processes are embodied (made up partly of extraneural bodily structures and processes), embedded (designed to function in tandem with the environment), enacted (constituted in part by action), and extended (located in the environment)." "The new way of thinking about the mind, Rowlands writes, is actually an old way of thinking that has taken on new form. Rowlands describes a conception of mind that had its clearest expression in phenomenology---in the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. He builds on these views, clarifies and renders consistent the ideas of embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended mind, and develops a unified philosophical treatment of the novel conception of the mind that underlies the new science of the mind."--BOOK JACKET.
Cognitive psychology --- Theory of knowledge --- Cognitive science. --- Mental Processes. --- Philosophy, Medical. --- Cognitive science --- Philosophy --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Humanities --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Philosophy, Medical --- Mental Processes --- Social Sciences --- Psychology --- Science --- Philosophy of mind --- PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General
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Tells the story of how long-standing notions about the body as dominated by spirit-like humors were transformed into scientific descriptions of its solid tissues. This book shows how debates over investigative methods and models of body order influence biomedicine and the broader culture.
Medicine --- Human body (Philosophy) --- Health Workforce --- Body, Human (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Philosophy. --- History --- Philosophy, Medical --- History of Medicine, 17th Cent. --- history.
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Gewalt begegnet uns allenthalben, im Alltag und in den Medien - und in letzter Zeit sogar in gesteigerter Form; und sie ist auch bereits Thema fachphilosophischer Tagungen gewesen. Deshalb haben wir die AIPPh-Tagung 2014 zu diesem Thema veranstaltet. Wir danken an dieser Stelle sehr herzlich Herrn Jürgen Mathuis vom Vorstand des VRK und der Adenauer-Stiftung - vertreten durch Herrn Dr. Koecke - für die finanzielle Förderung der Tagung und für die gute Zusammenarbeit! Den fachlichen und didaktischen Austausch zu diesem Thema wollen wir nun auch weiter mit unserer Publikation über Ländergrenzen
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One of the most controversial contemporary debates on the concept of health is the clash between the views of naturalists and normativists. This debate has fueled many of the, often very acrimonious, disputations arising from the claims of health, disease and disability activists and charities and the public policy responses to them. In responding to this debate, Ananth both surveys the existing literature, with special focus on the work of Christopher Boorse, and argues that a naturalistic concept of health, drawing on evolutionary considerations associated with biological function, homeostas
Philosophy of science --- Evolution (Biology) --- Health --- Medicine --- Naturalism. --- Normativity (Ethics) --- Health. --- Philosophy, Medical. --- Ethical Theory. --- Evolution. --- Philosophy. --- Naturalism --- Biological Evolution --- Ethical Theory --- Philosophy, Medical --- Biological Processes --- Population Characteristics --- Genetic Processes --- Ethics --- Philosophy --- Humanities --- Health Care --- Genetic Phenomena --- Biological Phenomena --- Phenomena and Processes --- Medical Ethics & Philosophy --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Evolution (Biology). --- Normativity (Ethics).
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