Means, Ends and Medical Care
Publication year: 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5292-7
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In this remarkable book, Gary Wright brings his thirty years of experience as a physician in pediatric and family medicine together with his Ph.D. in philosophy to address the important problem of the nature of good medical reasoning. Wright gives a brilliant analysis of the complex internal structure of our concepts of health and disease, showing that our present models are wholly incapable of dealing with the realities of actual human disease. He then shows the error of assuming that we always know in advance what the medical and moral ends are for any medical situation. This leads to a radical questioning of so-called "rational actor" or "economic" models of rationality that are popular in medicine today.
Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Health Care Ethics, John Dewey, ethics, health, knowledge, morality, naturalism
