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About Jonathan Fuller
I am a philosopher of medicine, philosopher of science, and bioethicist at the University of Pittsburgh as well as a host of the NBN channel Philosophy of Medicine. For the channel, I produce the podcast series 'Philosophers on Medicine' and co-produce the series 'New Books in Philosophy of Medicine'. My academic interests include epidemiology and clinical research, research ethics, medical diagnosis, Alzheimer's disease, and the role of philosophy and the humanities in medical education. My own new book is titled The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine. It is available open access from Oxford University Press (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-new-modern-medicine-9780190066147?cc=us&lang=en) and is discussed in this episode of New Books in Philosophy of Medicine: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-new-modern-medicine-disease-evidence-and-epidemiological-medicine-with-jonathan-fuller.NBN Episodes hosted by Jonathan:
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…
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 19, 2019
Philosophy of Medicine
Alex Broadbent's Philosophy of Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2019) asks two central questions about medicine: what is it, and what should we thin…
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…
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…
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…
May 5, 2019
Are Diseases Real?
I had a cold last winter, and so did countless other people. We had sore throats and runny noses and maybe even a cough. At first glance, it seems har…
April 6, 2019
Vaccine Hesitancy and Public Trust in Healthcare
Vaccine hesitancy is a cautious or critical stance towards vaccines. By some estimates, it is on the rise among the public. Medicine and public health…
February 23, 2019
Pick Your Medicine
Evidence-based medicine. Narrative medicine. Precision medicine. Are these the names of new schools of medicine? Or of new models for medical research…
January 26, 2019
Philosophers on Medicine
The Best Physician is also a Philosopher. This is the title of a book by Galen, the famous physician of Antiquity. Was Galen right? Or is it that for …
January 26, 2019
What is Medicine?
What is medicine? That question certainly has the ring of a paradigmatic philosophical problem. Yet surprisingly few contemporary philosophers have de…