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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Medicine--Philosophy."”.
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Cultural Achievements and Social Reality in The Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba 929-1031
… within the fields of astronomy, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, art/architecture and poetry, during this period; these admirable achievements are not the result of an admirable society.</p>
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Negative Capability as an Ethic of Empathy: Practicing Narrative Medicine with John Keats in Mind
… the similarities between elements of narrative medicine theory and John Keats’s quality of negative capability and explores the ways in which an understanding of negative capability can inform narrative medicine practices and guide narrative medicine beyond its present theory. I argue that …
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Rethinking Death and Donation: Mediating Death at the End of Life in the Wake of Brain Death's Failings
… years or so, a growing number of experts in medicine, philosophy, and religion regard brain death as an untenable criterion for human death. Given that the debate about brain death has occupied a relatively small group of professionals, few are aware that brain death fails to correspond to …
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Discours de la corruption dans la Grèce classique
… ferment, whose role in the genesis of tragedy, medicine, philosophy and history in classical Greece is significant, even essential. For these four discourses and their three main objects (body, soul and city), corruption plays a seminal function. The first part of this dissertation, "La …
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The Use of Intuition by Intrapartal Nurses
Fifteen intrapartal nurses participated in this qualitative, descriptive study of the use of intuition in caring for laboring clients. Demographic information, including participant self-rating of intuitive ability on a visual analog scale, was obtained. Personal interviews with a predetermined …
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Healing the Effects of Medical Errors: A Vision of Justice as Wholeness
<p>Medical errors cannot be avoided completely even when employing the greatest care and applying the most sophisticated medical technologies. They occur when organizational, human, technical, or environmental factors lead to unintentional failures which result in recognizable physical, mental, …
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The Prospects of Personalising Medicine
Personalised Medicine (PM) is touted as a medical revolution where medical treatment and diagnosis is tailored to the individual patient so that it is optimal, safe, and exactly appropriate. Each chapter in this dissertation deals with the conceptual, methodological, epistemic, or ethical issues of …
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The Limits of Screening
This thesis is about screening for cancer—about testing healthy individuals for disease. The traditional way to approach this subject is to begin by considering whether screening is effective. So, for example, there is a hearty debate about whether cancer screening reduces mortality to a meaningful …
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Phylogeny, Psychology, and the Vicissitudes of Human Development: The Anxiety of Atavism
<p>This cross-disciplinary dissertation provides a missing intellectual history of an ostensibly dead idea. Once widely held and no less elegant for its obsolescence, the principle of biogenetic recapitulation is best remembered by its defining mantra, “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.” Among …
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Male circumcision in the United States: The History, an analysis of the discourse, and a philosophical interpretation
… routine practice gained traction at a time when medicine was gaining authority over the body at the expense of religious authority, but often utilizing moral, unscientific concerns to increase the authority of medicine. Finally, the philosophies of Nietzsche and Freud are used to cast suspicion …
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Communicating Cancer: From Concepts to Care
… communicative challenges in contemporary cancer medicine centred around precision oncology, an approach which seeks to individualise cancer treatment using genomic biomarkers. Chapter 1 introduces precision oncology, proposing a definition that captures its novel and distinctive features, and …
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Spiritual coping of Maltese patients with first acute myocardial infarction: a longitudinal study
Research provides evidence about the high levels of anxiety and depression in myocardial infarction (MI). This is because patients with MI face both an acute life-threatening illness and the potential for living with a major illness (Roebuck et al. 2001, Thornton 2001, Kim et al. 2000). …
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The Therapist as Scientist: A Philosophical Appraisal of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
… drawing on relevant literature from history and philosophy of science, medicine and psychiatry, I dismantle this image of CBT on a number of fronts. Firstly, I show that CBT is not unique in presenting itself as 'scientific' or 'evidence-based'. Psychoanalysts were not unconcerned with evidence …
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Toward a Good Life in Later Life: Perspectives, Problems, and Responses
America is aging. The older share of the U.S. population is expected by 2030 to reach 72 million, almost 20% of the country's total population. What will the experiences of later life be like for this group of people? In order to answer this question, one must consider different perspectives on …
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Social Identity, Scientific Practice, and the Production of Social Knowledge: An Ethnographic Investigation of American Social Psychology Laboratories
<p>Social identity has the ability to permeate a multitude of domains in everyday life. Therefore, the science of social psychology—influential due to its impact in education, social and public policy, and the law—rightfully foregrounds the presence of social identity categories in the theorizing …