The Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine

We are all concerned about our health and our health care. As doctors and nurses, or as patients (and one becomes the other too), we may also be interested in the assumptions underlying health and healthcare: its funding and impact reflects the value society puts on it, the treatment of disease and pain is shaped by the state of clinical knowledge and those methodologies by means of which such knowledge is obtained, and definitions of the self and of moral agency inform ways in which physicians and patients often come together in making decisions. These ideas take us in the...