Life the Human Being between Life and Death: A Dialogue between Medicine and Philosophy: Recurrent Issues and New Approaches

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-11
The Ontopoietic Design of Life and Medicine’s Search for the Norm....Pages 13-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Two Models of Medical Knowledge....Pages 39-47
The Logics of Medicine: Discovery and Evaluation....Pages 49-56
An Analysis of Medical Knowledge and Reasoning....Pages 57-66
The Significance of “Alternative Medicine” for the Philosophy of Medicine....Pages 67-74
The Phenomenological Aspects of Mental Disorders....Pages 75-84
Illness as Evil and Illness as Good....Pages 85-90
The Aesthetics of Medicine....Pages 91-101
Medicine and Art....Pages 103-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
The Zapping Animal: Oscillating Images of the Human Person in Modern Medicine....Pages 115-123
New Biomedical Developments and Their Impact on the Legal Theory and Practice of the Mind-Body Relationship....Pages 125-133
The Human Being — A Cosmic Being....Pages 135-144
The Philosophical Foundations of Yoga Therapy....Pages 145-151
To Be (Alive) or to Have (Good Health)....Pages 153-159
(Wo)Man and Death in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century....Pages 161-171
Existential Values....Pages 173-182
Is Personalism an Adequate Moral System for Bioethics?....Pages 183-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
From Abortion to Euthanasia: Rethinking the Value of Life at the End of the Christian Age....Pages 195-207
Changing Values in Contemporary Medicine....Pages 209-221
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Clinical Decisions, Impaired Capacity and the Public Interest....Pages 223-238
Advance Directives: Self-Determination, Physician’s Responsibility, Value of Life....Pages 239-253
The Ethical Problems of Doctors’ Decisions: The Patient’s Autonomy and Paternalism....Pages 255-262
Some Remarks on “Quasi-Surrogate” Decision-Making....Pages 263-269
Justice and Beneficence in Deficiency Medicine....Pages 271-281
The Media and Health....Pages 283-292
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
The Polish School of Philosophy of Medicine: Lessons from the Past....Pages 295-308
Władysław Szumowski: Forerunner of Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine....Pages 309-315
Back Matter....Pages 317-324