...The Introduction sets out the major themes of the book. These include medicine’s role in the moral and cultural agendas of contemporary society, challenges to the biomedical model represented by new regimes of disease and disorder, and the limitations of principlist bioethics for moving in a more...

... medicine approach public health social determinants of health bioethics medicalization consumerism principlism reductionism holism biomedical model morality Throughout this book we have used the reductionism/holism distinction as a heuristic for evaluating features of medicine across a broad...

... philosophy for the commitments of modern science and medicine. Second are the nineteenth-century changes that joined medicine with the physical and life sciences and gave birth to a particular constellation of ideal-types—the “biomedical model”—that have structured thinking about disease and treatment ever...

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... society common good rights Taylor Gary Illich Ivan justice and health care liberal democracies social democracy globalization social justice Aristotle ethical naturalism pluralism and ethics defining health private and public goods biomedical model health care Almost from its introduction...