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Medical Nihilism
Jacob Stegenga has argued that “we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions” (Stegenga J, Medical nihilism. Oxford...
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Science Skepticism
Often, in our popular discourse around science skepticism, we are quick to dismiss those who are suspicious of science or science-based policies as...
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Philosophy in Medical Education
In recent years, philosophy of science has increasingly engaged with scientific practice and with the distinctive features of various specific...
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Medical Conspiracy Theories
Medical conspiracy theories have existed for a long time, but they have become more pronounced in recent times. This represents a major obstacle to...
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Vision, body and interpretation in medical imaging diagnostics
This article explores the profound impact of visualism and visual perception in the context of medical imaging diagnostics. It emphasizes the...
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Ethical Data Collection for Medical Image Analysis: a Structured Approach
Due to advancements in technology such as data science and artificial intelligence, healthcare research has gained momentum and is generating new...
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Medical Explanation
Medical explanation may consist in hierarchical research, reduction, supervenience, inference to the best explanation. The degree of inductive...
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The Ethics of Medical Research
The most basic question any medical researcher should ask oneself is: Why ought I engage in medical research? Like any ethical question, there are...
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An account of medical treatment, with a preliminary account of medical conditions
In this article, I present a philosophical account of medical treatment. In support of this account, I offer a suggestive account of medical...
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Ethical and Regulatory Gaps in Aesthetic Medical Practice in Top Asian Medical Tourism Destinations
Aesthetic medicine merges art and medical sciences, focusing on the modification and enhancement of physical appearance through surgical and...
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Race and indigeneity in human microbiome science: microbiomisation and the historiality of otherness
This article reformulates Stephan Helmreich´s the ¨microbiomisation of race¨ as the historiality of otherness in the foundations of human microbiome...
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Is Medical Grammar Counterfactual?
This chapter shows how, since David Hume, scientific hypotheses have not been mere generalisations, but that they call on an additional and necessary...
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Mental Disorders as Genuine Medical Conditions
Psychiatry and the other mental health professions treat problematic psychological conditions that are claimed to be “mental disorders” that qualify...
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Socially responsible science: Exploring the complexities
Philosophers of science, particularly those working on science and values, often talk about the need for science to be socially responsible. However,...
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Trust and professionalism in science: medical codes as a model for scientific negligence?
BackgroundProfessional communities such as the medical community are acutely concerned with negligence: the category of misconduct where a...
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Hermeneutics and Medical Ethics
As I have continuously stressed in this work medicine is not to be viewed as merely an applied science but as a unique form of human practice....
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A survey and critical analysis of the teaching of medical ethics in UK medical schools
This article surveys and analyses the reflections on medical ethics teaching by colleagues teaching in United Kingdom (UK) medical schools in the...
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Toward a comparative history of medical genetics as a medical specialty in North America
Much of what has been written about the history of medical genetics in North America has focused on physician involvement in eugenics and the...
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Revisiting the Basic/Applied Science Distinction: The Significance of Urgent Science for Science Funding Policy
There has been a resurgence between two closely related discussions concerning modern science funding policy. The first revolves around the coherence...