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Podcast: New Books in Medicine
Episode: Alex Broadbent, "Philosophy of Medicine" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Description: Alex Broadbent's Philosophy of Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2019)Â asks two central questions about medicine: what is it, and what should we think of it? Philosophy of medicine itself has evolved in response to developments in the philosophy of science, especially with regard to epistemology, positioning it to make contributions that are medically useful. This book locates these developments within a larger framework, suggesting that much philosophical thinking about medicine contributes to answering one or both of these two guiding questions.Taking stock of philosophy of medicine's present place in the landscape and its potential to illuminate a w...