• Complain

Maier Barbara - The philosophy and practice of medicine and bioethics: a naturalistic-humanistic approach

Here you can read online Maier Barbara - The philosophy and practice of medicine and bioethics: a naturalistic-humanistic approach full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. City: London;Dordrecht, year: 2010, publisher: Springer Netherlands, genre: Children. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

Maier Barbara The philosophy and practice of medicine and bioethics: a naturalistic-humanistic approach
  • Book:
    The philosophy and practice of medicine and bioethics: a naturalistic-humanistic approach
  • Author:
  • Publisher:
    Springer Netherlands
  • Genre:
  • Year:
    2010
  • City:
    London;Dordrecht
  • Rating:
    4 / 5
  • Favourites:
    Add to favourites
  • Your mark:
    • 80
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

The philosophy and practice of medicine and bioethics: a naturalistic-humanistic approach: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "The philosophy and practice of medicine and bioethics: a naturalistic-humanistic approach" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

This book challenges the unchallenged methods in medicine, such as evidence-based medicine, which claim to be, but often are not, scientific. It completes medical care by adding the comprehensive humanistic perspectives and philosophy of medicine. No specific or absolute recommendations are given regarding medical treatment, moral approaches, or legal advice. Given rather is discussion about each issue involved and the strongest arguments indicated. Each argument is subject to further critical analysis. This is the same position as with any philosophical, medical or scientific view. The argument that decision-making in medicine is inadequate unless grounded on a philosophy of medicine is not meant to include all of philosophy and every philosopher. On the contrary, it includes only sound, practical and humanistic philosophy and philosophers who are creative and critical thinkers and who have concerned themselves with the topics relevant to medicine. These would be those philosophers who engage in practical philosophy, such as the pragmatists, humanists, naturalists, and ordinary-language philosophers. A new definition of our own philosophy of life emerges and it is necessary to have one. Good lifestyle no longer means just abstaining from cigarettes, alcohol and getting exercise. It also means living a holistic life, which includes all of ones thinking, personality and actions. This book also includes new ways of thinking. In this regard the Metaphorical Method is explained, used, and exemplified in depth, for example in the chapters on care, egoism and altruism, letting die, etc.

Maier Barbara: author's other books


Who wrote The philosophy and practice of medicine and bioethics: a naturalistic-humanistic approach? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

The philosophy and practice of medicine and bioethics: a naturalistic-humanistic approach — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "The philosophy and practice of medicine and bioethics: a naturalistic-humanistic approach" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make
Barbara Maier and Warren A. Shibles International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine The Philosophy and Practice of Medicine and Bioethics A Naturalistic-Humanistic Approach 10.1007/978-90-481-8867-3_1 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
1. Metaphor in Medicine: The Metaphorical Method
Barbara Maier 1 and Warren A. Shibles 2
(1)
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Paracelsus Medical University SALK, Mllner Hauptstrasse 48, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
(2)
University of WisconsinWhitewater, 53190 Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA
Barbara Maier
Email:
Abstract
What is to be shown in this chapter is that and how metaphor may be used as a scientific method of analysis and how it functions in medical statements. The metaphorical method is used to gain insights into the philosophy of medicine and bioethics. Philosophy of medicine is metaphors about medicine. The meanings of medicine are generated by a constant stream of metaphors. Types of metaphors are presented and examples are given how to work with them (A healthcare worker (H) patient (P) metaphoric: H/P modeling in medicine). Metaphorical methods are useful for analysis of and writing research papers (a guideline how to do that is presented). The Metaphorical Method is used throughout this book to critically examine medicine and bioethics, practice and theory and establish a philosophy of medicine relevant to its practical tasks.
Keywords
Metaphorical Method philosophy of medicine types of metaphor scientific method medical language narrative self therapeutic metaphor insights healthcare worker patient relationship
Deceased
1.1 Introduction
According to Robert Frost, All thinking is metaphorical []. So also is philosophy and science. What is to be shown here is that and how metaphor may be used as a scientific method of analysis and how it functions in medical statements. The style, narrative, models and language of medicine basically consist of metaphors, which need clarification. Narrative is one of the old and recently re-discovered techniques of gaining medical knowledge. As is argued in this book, the usual view that the scientific method usually mentioned in science and medicine is falsely based on nave empiricism (sensation and observation) or abstractionistic notions of truth (formal logic and deduction). Observation and sensation are linguistic terms in need of clarification. There is, for example, the philosophy of perception by which will be argued that the scientific method rather rests on and presupposes language. Thus, any method of science, including statistics and mathematics, needs to use the techniques available in language. These are mainly rhetorical devices, the most fundamental one being metaphor and its various types. The metaphorical method is used in this book to gain insights into the philosophy of medicine and bioethics. Philosophy of medicine is metaphors about medicine. The meanings of medicine are generated by a constant stream of metaphors. Metaphors in medicine interact and break on one another.
The first annotated metaphor bibliography contained much of the previous writing on metaphor []. The literature on metaphor has exploded in the last 30 years including web-based material. Metaphor involves combinations of unlike terms (oxymora), reversals, neologisms, juxtapositions, puns (especially popular with Deconstructionists), analogy, imagery, category-mistakes, tension metaphors, humor, irony, taking terms literally, being captivated by a paradigm or picture, etc. Researchers often take their models literally, for example evidence-based medicine, or the medical model, which treats all disorders as physical ones. Metaphor involves especially deviation, such as from the normal, expected, traditional, rules, values, etc. Metaphor is basically to relate unlike things. The techniques and types of metaphor are held to be fundamental to understanding and methodology in science.
Because it cannot be literally true, the x is y form cannot be reduced to the literal simile form x is like y. Metaphor is open-context. It does not tell us how x is y, how the world is matter, how the body is physical matter to be medically treated. Some wish to reduce cause to statistics or to matter by means of literal simile, others are content to regard cause as reasoning in a non-literal, metaphorical way. Reasons have been presented to show that metaphor has meaning, which cannot be reduced to literal language []. Every theory creates a new world. Metaphor has meaning of its own which cannot be reduced to literal language. Metaphors in medicine also have meaning of their own which cannot be reduced to literal language. Style is not irrelevant, but rather determines what is said. A paraphrased Hippocrates is not Hippocrates, religious humanism is not Deweys humanism. We may therefore ask what each term in medicine means. The philosophy of medicine involves the intensive and extensive clarification of medical language.
To create a metaphor is to create a category-mistake, or produce type-crossing. Two different universes of discourse are brought together, such as thought is chemical, or cause is statistical. The second metaphor is used in evidence-based medicine. The unlike is related to the unlike. Therefore, if the metaphorical statement is to make sense we must find unity in difference. The metaphor appears as a contradiction, enigma, mystery, or riddle waiting to be solved. If we diagnose that someone has a disease we need specific clinical experience to determine what it really involves. Metaphor is a context-deviation. Terms are used in other than their normal or usual context or language-game e.g. in scientific research for problem solving. The result of this is surprise and apparent contradiction, which upon resolution produces the satisfaction of solution. Research departs from what has been understood and ends in wonder. The physician is like a detective or experimental researcher trying to find a workable method of treating a disease. The impossible becomes, after all, possible.
This may suggest that if apparently contradictory metaphors can be resolved, then perhaps the perverse and extensive enculturated contradictions of our lives can be resolved as well. This as we shall see is what happens with black humor in medicine []. The terms and methods of one universe of discourse are used to give insight into another. We speak of medical causes and description in terms of atoms, mathematics, statistics, quarks, language, physics, emotion, pictures, diagrams, etc. Metaphor becomes, then, a tool of discovery and a scientific method.
What metaphor often comes down to is breaking rules deviation. The tool of the scientist, like of the good physician is to deviate to solve complex problems. To do so is business as usual. Ramsey pointed out What is not verbally odd is devoid of disclosure power [] who pounded one of the last nails into the coffin of fixed definitions. They no longer exist. We are left with disciplines, which are useful fictions, as-ifs. Medicine, among other disciplines, is a collection of metaphors, which define our medical experience. Even perception is perspectival, not the basis of the scientific method.
We may distinguish between cognitive metaphor and perceptual metaphor. Perceptual metaphor may be clarified in terms of the widely used concept of seeing-as . It is held that we never merely see or sense directly. That would be nave empiricism. Virtually all seeing is seeing-as, seeing or hearing in terms of our thinking [).
1.2 Types of Metaphor
An analysis of some of the types of metaphor may give insight. The use of metaphor for analysis is called the Metaphorical Method []. A few examples of this are:
Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «The philosophy and practice of medicine and bioethics: a naturalistic-humanistic approach»

Look at similar books to The philosophy and practice of medicine and bioethics: a naturalistic-humanistic approach. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «The philosophy and practice of medicine and bioethics: a naturalistic-humanistic approach»

Discussion, reviews of the book The philosophy and practice of medicine and bioethics: a naturalistic-humanistic approach and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.