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Philosophy of Medicine
Interviews with authors and scholars of the philosophy of medicine.
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August 13, 2026
The New Modern Medicine
Jonathan Fuller’s The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine (Oxford UP, 2025) takes the reader on a philosophical tour …
February 15, 2026
Making Medical Progress
Answers to the question 'what is medical progress?' have always been contested, and any one response is always bound up with contextual ideas of perso…
November 4, 2024
Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?
The question of whether mental disorders are disorders of the brain has led to a long-running and controversial dispute within psychiatry, psychology …
September 9, 2022
The Life Worth Living
The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality (U Minnesota Press, 2022) investigates the exclusion of and discrimination against disabled peop…
April 5, 2022
The Future of Delusions
The accusation “you’re deluded” is often used as something of a cheap shot intended to silence an opponent in debate. But what is the nature of a delu…
February 1, 2022
Conceiving People
In the United States, tens of thousands of children are conceived every year with donated gametes. When people decide to create a child with donated …
August 28, 2021
Philosophy of Medicine on COVID-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists and policymakers have responded with unprecedented solutions. The pandemic has also forced a rethinking of sc…
February 10, 2021
Philosophy of Immunology
Vaccines make us wholly or partly immune to disease, such as Covid-19. But what is it to be immune? What is an immune system, and what does it do? In …
August 31, 2020
Global Health Impact
Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria …
July 5, 2020
Race in Epidemiology and Medicine
There is renewed research and attention to race in epidemiology and medicine, partly owing to developments in population genetics. Yet race is a conte…
May 31, 2020
Jacob Stegenga on Medical Nihilism
Medical Nihilism. Is it a vestige of a bygone age in medicine beset with treatments like mercury and bloodletting? Or the proper conclusion of a line …
May 3, 2020
Miriam Solomon on Expert Consensus in Medicine
In medicine, consensus statements abound. They’re issued by government agencies and professional societies as the official word on the science and pra…
March 1, 2020
The Causes of Disease
The cause of tuberculosis is the germ Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Meanwhile, the causes of heart disease are variable: smoking, sedentary lifestyle, b…
January 6, 2020
Evidence-based Medicine
Evidence-based medicine or EBM was introduced in the early 1990s as a move to increase medicine’s uptake of published scientific evidence, especially …
November 11, 2019
Mental Disorders and the DSM
Mental disorders cause suffering for many and pose challenges for the psychiatric profession. Throughout history, the way that society and psychiatry …
October 6, 2019
A Primer on Health and Disease
Health and disease are two concepts that dominate our lives. Analyzing these concepts has also dominated much of the discussion in the philosophy of m…
September 2, 2019
Clinical Judgment
The mastery of clinical judgment is what separates the expert clinician from the novice. Yet clinical judgment remains somewhat obscure. Is it a tacit…
July 7, 2019
The Metaphysics of Pregnancy
Often, when philosophical questions are asked about pregnancy, they concern ethical problems about abortion, surrogacy or assisted conception. But the…
July 7, 2019
Delusions
Delusions are often defined as fixed false beliefs. They run contrary to common sense or counter-evidence that would convince any rational person, lik…
June 2, 2019
Overdiagnosis and the Definition of Disease
In recent years, physicians and health scientists have become increasingly concerned about overdiagnosis, the problem of diagnosing too many people as…