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(Philosophy and Medicine. Vol. 44.) Edited by Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes and Mary Ann Gardell Cutter. 335 pp. Boston, Kluwer Academic, 1993. $99. ISBN 0-7923-1869-2.

This book is the 44th volume in the series "Philosophy and Medicine" begun by Tristram Engelhardt and Stuart Spicker in 1975, a comprehensive collection of contemporary thought on philosophical issues pertinent to medicine. To name a series "Philosophy and Medicine" is to acknowledge the difficulty of articulating what a philosophy of medicine might be. In any case, almost two thirds of the books in the series are devoted to medical ethics, a few to assessing medical knowledge or the clinical encounter, and the remainder to miscellaneous topics. The predominant problem in Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine is defining . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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