The Culture of Biomedicine

D.Heyward Brock (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

1984
University of Delaware Press (Verlag)
978-0-87413-229-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This wide-ranging but well-integrated anthology is the first volume in a new series sponsored by the Center for Science and Culture at the University of Delaware. The theme of this book is the possibility of developing a unified worldview, in which the perspectives of science and the humanities work together in the effort to understand the human condition.

Inhalt

Science and humanities / Michael S. Gregory -- The goals of medicine and society / David C. Thomasma -- The phenomenon of medicine / Richard M. Zaner -- Scientific views of human nature / James E. Trosko -- The sociobiology of human sexuality / Michael Ruse -- Bioethics and the human prospect / Van Rensselaer Potter -- Patients in particular / W.J. Coggins and Peter Graham -- Health, art, and drama / Dennis Carlson -- "How Annandale went out" / Peter Graham -- Pathos and pathology / Edmund L. Erde -- Humpty Dumpty, a literary challenge to the concept of personality integration / Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.1984
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Science & Culture ; v. 1
• Zusatzinfo: illustrations
• Verlagsort: Cranbury
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 220 mm
• Gewicht: 430 g
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Biomedizin
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 0-87413-229-0 / 0874132290
• ISBN-13: 978-0-87413-229-8 / 9780874132298
• Zustand: Neuware