Medicine. But this does not provide us with what Miettinen describes in the final essay of this
series as “an intellectually tenable conceptualization of medicine itself, its essence.” A fully …

The articles by Olli Miettinen on the modern scientific physician are thought-provoking. 1-8
Miettinen writes well, even though it is sometimes hard to negotiate through his prose. He …

What kind of knowledge is medical knowledge? Can medicine be explained scientifically? Is
disease a scientific concept, or do explanations of disease depend on values? What is" …

A major part of philosophy of medicine, although not all of it, is a branch of philosophy of
science. This part is not only currently emerging. Many important contributions belong to this …

Medicine was a “productive art”(Aristotle), and now it is an aggregate of such arts. It thus is
supposed to have products, and indeed it does. Hippocrates' empirico-rational medicine …

442 JAMC• 21 AOÛT 2001; 165 (4) guished from 'liberal arts,'the latter 'fit for a
gentleman.'Today, among the presumably practical medical sciences we tend to distinguish …

How are concepts of health and disease to be defined? How are medical theories
elaborated? What explanatory and predictive models are adopted in medicine? What …

Very little of a strictly philosophical nature has appeared in the past fifty years in the
philosophy of medicine. In fact, to call some reflections that did appear a philosophy of …

Arthur Caplan has argued that the philosophy of medicine as a sub-discipline of the
philosophy of science does not exist, despite numerous publications and professional …

In spite of the seminal work A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice, the debate on the task
and goals of philosophy of medicine still continues. From an European perspective it is …