Meaning and Medicine A Reader in the Philosophy of Health Care [Paperback]

A chief aim of this resource is to rekindle interest in seeing health care not solely as a set of practices so problematic as to require ethical analysis by philosophers and other scholars, but as a field whose scrutiny is richly rewarding for the traditional concerns of philosophy.James Lindemann Nelsonis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. Hilde Lindemann Nelsonis Director of the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and is editor of Feminism andFamilies(Routledge 1997). They are the authors of ThePatient in the Family(Routledge 1995) and Alzheimer's:Answers to Hard Questions for Families(1996).