Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Editorial

The philosophy of medicine: Development of a discipline

William E. Stempsey

Scientific Contribution – Medicine as task – Karl E. Rothschuh’s philosophy of medicine

Daniela Mergenthaler

On the autonomy turf. Assessing the value of autonomy to patients

Lars Sandman

From human ability to ethical principle: An intercultural perspective on autonomy

Ingrid Hanssen

Vulnerability: What kind of principle is it?

Michael H. Kottow

Being a Parkinson’s patient: Immobile and unpredictably whimsical Literature and existential analysis

Harry Van Der Bruggen, Guy Widdershoven

‘Prosthetic fit’: On personal identity and the value of bodily difference

Medard Hilhorst

Biomechanical and phenomenological models of the body, the meaning of illness and quality of care

James A. Marcum

Bayes and health care research

Peter Allmark

Attitudes on euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide and terminal sedation -- A survey of the members of the German Association for Palliative Medicine

H. C. Müller-busch, F. S. Oduncu, S. Woskanjan, E. Klaschik

Food safety is political

Peter Sandøe

How scripture is to be performed in bioethics?

James F. Keenan

Short literature notices

Books Received

XIXth European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care

Clinical Ethics Consultation: 2. International Summit

ESPMH News

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