The Ethics of Diagnosis

Definitions of Health and Illness in the Light of American Values and Social Structure.- Historical Perspectives.- The Ethics of Diagnosis in Ancient Greek Medicine.- The Ethics of Diagnosis in Early Christianity and the Middle Ages.- The Ethics of Diagnosis in the Modern and Contemporary Worlds.- Medical Diagnosis and Institutional Settings.- Some Conceptual and Methodological Observations on the History of Ethics of Diagnosis.- Observer Bias: The Emergence of the Ethics of Diagnosis.- Anthropological Interpretations.- The Body as A Field of Meaning: Implications for the Ethics of Diagnosis.- Embodiment, Pathology, and Diagnosis.- The Experience of Pain and its Clinical Implications.- Ethics in Diagnosis: Bodily Integrity, Trust-Telling, and the Good Physician.- Bodily Norms and the Ethics of Diagnosis.- The Socio-Cultural Dimension of Medical Knowledge.- The Social Presuppositions of Medical Knowledge.- Diagnosing the Eleven Month Pregnancy: Some Aspects of Moral and Cultural Foundations in Medical Judgment.- Value Presuppositions of Diagnosis: A Case Study in Diagnosing Cervical Cancer.- Computer Augmented Diagnosis.- Value Desiderata in the Logical Structuring of Computer Diagnosis.- Problems in Computer Diagnosis.- Computers and Clinical Thinking.- Critique of Diagnostic Formalism.- Human Values in Computer Diagnosis.- The Ethics of Diagnosis in the Post-Modern World.- Post-Modern Reflections on the Ethics of Naming.