A return to reasonableness and virtue in medical epistemology

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 447-451
Author(s):  
Narcyz Ghinea
Keyword(s):  
Medical Epistemology

The Patient-Centered Medicine as the Theoretical Framework for Patient Engagement

2016 ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Borghi Lidia ◽  
Galli Federica ◽  
Vegni Elena Anna Maria
Keyword(s):  
Patient Engagement ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Medical Epistemology ◽  
Patient Centeredness ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Patient Centered Medicine ◽  
Chronic Disorders ◽  
Theoretical Frame

The present contribution will describe the origin, development and main characteristics of the patient-centered medicine; the literature on patient-centeredness, in particular in the field of chronic disorders, will be discussed and the importance of this approach underlined; arguments about the importance of patient-centered medicine as theoretical frame founding and supporting the concept of patient engagement will be highlighted, considering that only within this medical epistemology the patient's engagement can find a full and complete expression.

Medicine

Al-Rāzī ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 152-172
Author(s):  
Peter Adamson
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
Medical Epistemology ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Authorial Persona

This chapter provides a look at the philosophically interesting aspects of Razi’s abundantly extant works on medicine, which were heavily influenced by Galen but also independent-minded and informed by Razi’s own medical practice. After surveying the range of his medical works and their various purposes, the chapter examines specific topics including his anthropology and anatomical theory and his medical epistemology, under which heading it is asked how far medicine is based on empirical evidence as opposed to theories taken over from natural philosophy. Finally, the chapter examines Razi’s authorial persona in his medical output. This is itself based on Galen’s self-presentation as an unusually skilled doctor who could correct the judgments of both contemporaries and ancient authorities.

Hellenistic medical epistemology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.J. Hankinson
Keyword(s):  
Causal Explanation ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Medical Epistemology ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Practical Medicine ◽  
Scientific Inference ◽  
The Status

During the Hellenistic period (323–31 bc), there arose, largely in Alexandria, a profound debate in medical methodology. The main participants were the Empiricists, committed to an anti-theoretical, practical medicine based on observation and experience and the various Rationalists, such as Herophilus, Erasistratus, and Asclepiades, who held that general theories of physiology and pathology were both attainable and essential to proper medical understanding and practice. Dispute about the nature of scientific inference and the status of causal explanation mirrored and to some extent conditioned the contemporary debate between Stoics and sceptics about epistemology.

Medical epistemology

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-452
Author(s):  
Henk ten Have ◽  
Bert Gordijn
Keyword(s):  
Medical Epistemology

Tradition on the Move

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 133-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taewoo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Medical Epistemology ◽  
Korean Medicine ◽  
East Asian Medicine ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Dynamic Forces ◽  
External Forces ◽  
The Impact

Studies of East Asian medicine have demonstrated that contemporary traditional medicine is by no means static but continuously changing, and current work often emphasises the impact of external forces on this transformation such as the modern state, globalisation, and biomedicine. This paper emphasises another significant—but under-examined—impetus for change: East Asian medical epistemology and its theoretical and clinical elaborations. Drawing on an ethnographic investigation of Korean medicine and focusing on ‘practice’ as a theoretical and methodological vehicle, this study illustrates that traditional medicine retains within great potential to transform itself. Three contemporary acupuncture methods—Sa-am, Eight-Constitution, and Hundred-Degree and their own ways of cultivating tradition (validation of pre-modern methods, combination of existing theories, and reinterpretation of classical texts)—show that East Asian medical theories and epistemology continuously serve as dynamic forces for tradition on the move. By analysing the emergence of new forms of traditional practices in Korean medicine, this study attempts to contribute to the discussion of how tradition exists in modernity.

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