Is medicine hermeneutics all the way down?
| Autor: | Cooper Mw |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Modern medicine
Existentialism Logic media_common.quotation_subject Philosophy Interpretation (philosophy) Science Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Medicine (miscellaneous) General Medicine Epistemology Issues ethics and legal aspects Philosophy of medicine Humanism Literary criticism Humans Ethics Medical Hermeneutics Clinical Medicine Relativism Universalism Skepticism media_common |
| Zdroj: | Theoretical medicine. 15(2) |
| ISSN: | 0167-9902 |
| Popis: | Several recent publications have suggested that hermeneutics, the method of literary criticism, might prove to be useful in medicine. In this essay I consider this thesis with particular attention to the claim that medicine "is hermeneutics all the way down". After examining an anti-positivist critique of positivist medicine and arguing that hermeneutic interpretation involves a more radical critique of modern medicine, I examine the supposed consequences of hermeneutical universalism: relativism, skepticism and antirealism which further evaluation reveals to be only potential consequences of hermeneutics. A brief discussion of phronesis and of the possible "texts" of medicine concludes the article. |
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