Biomedicine and the new medical model equate disease with organic dysfunction, but often
adopt an unsophisticated and limited understanding of function/dysfunction that fails to take …

The precise nature and role in medical practice of disease, health, illness, wellbeing, and
associated notions such as sickness and wholeness, are fervently debated in the current …

CMAJ| MAY 1, 2017| VOLUME 189| ISSUE 17 E641 medicine. 2 The new medical model's
disease concept may be unchanged compared with the old model (the “concept of disease” …

Biomedicine has been a huge success within Western culture. It can fix medical problems
that have never previously been treatable and that cannot be fixed by other medical …

Despite several decades of debate, the concept of disease remains hotly contested. The
debate is typically cast as one between naturalism and normativism, with a hybrid view that …

Jonathan Fuller, in a recent CMAJ article, 1 examines the transition from an “old” biomedical
model to a “new” one, as well as the challenges that have emerged with the new model …

Current developments in the biomedical sciences are going to produce profound changes in
the nature of medicine in the near future. One can recall the immense revolutionary power of …

98 of medicine today and in the future. If medicine is an interpretative, helping meeting
between persons aiming to restore or protect health and alleviate the suffering of illness, the …

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 …

We are pleased and greatly honored to present to the readers of Theoretical Medicine and
Bioethics a selection of the wonderful papers presented at the 6th Philosophy of Medicine …