The Ethics of Diagnosis

Editorial Preface. Introduction; H.T. Engelhardt, Jr. I: Historical Perspectives. The Ethics of Diagnosis in Ancient Greek Medicine; P. Laín-Entralgo. The Ethics of Diagnosis in Early Christianity and the Middle Ages; D.G. Guillén. The Ethics of Diagnosis in the Modern and Contemporary Worlds; A. Albarracín. Medical Diagnosis and Institutional Settings; J.L. Peset. Some Conceptual and Methodological Observations on the History of Ethics of Diagnosis; D. Amundsen. Observer Bias: The Emergence of the Ethics of Diagnosis; H.T. Engelhardt, Jr. II: Anthropological and Sociological Interpretations. The Body as a Field of Meaning: Implications for the Ethics of Diagnosis; H.T. Engelhardt, Jr. Embodiment, Pathology, and Diagnosis; J.A. Mainetti. The Experience of Pain and its Clinical Implications; D. Leder. Bodily Integrity, Trust-Telling, and the Good Physician; S.F. Spicker. Anthropology and the Hidden Values in Diagnosis; T.J. Bole III. III: The Socio-Cultural Dimension of Medical Knowledge. The Social Presuppositions of Medical Knowledge; M. Wartofsky. Diagnosing the Eleven-Month Pregnancy: Some Aspects of Moral and Cultural Foundations in Medical Judgment; H.-M. Sass. Non-Epistemic Considerations in Diagnosis: A Case Study of Pap Smears; M.A. Gardell Cutter. IV: Technological Developments in Medical Diagnosis. Value Desiderata in the Logical Structuring of Computer Diagnosis; E.D. Pellegrino. Problems in Computer Diagnosis; K.F. Schaffner. Computer and Clinical Thinking; H.R. Wulff. Critique of Diagnostic Formalism; E. Murphy. Human Values in Computer Diagnosis; E.V. Boisaubin. V: TheEthics of Diagnosis in the Post-Modern World. Post-Modern Reflections on the Ethics of Naming; G. Khushf. Index.