Edmund D. Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philoso...

Over a period of a year, the symposium on clinical judgment has taken shape as a volume devoted t...

This volume inaugurates a series concerning philosophy and medicine. There are few, if any, areas...

The concept 'health' is ambiguous [18,9, 11]. The concept 'mental health' is even more so. 'Healt...

The term `bioethics' was coined in 1971, just as interest inthe medical humanities claimed a pr...

The spectacular development of medical knowledge over the last two centuries has brought intrusiv...

This volume, which has developed from the Fourteenth Trans- Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy ...

This volume developed from and around a series of six lectures sponsored by Rice University and t...

As the field of bioethics has matured, increasing attention isbeing paid to how bioethical issu...

Much of contemporary philosophy, political theory, and socialthought has been shaped directly o...

Although the investigation and regulation of the faculties of the human mind appear to be the pro...