The patient experience of medically unexplained symptoms: an existentialist analysisTheoretical Medicine - Tập 43 - Trang 355-373 - 2022
Kimberly S. Engels
This article explores the patient experience of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) from an existentialist standpoint. Drawing on the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, I explore their concepts of existential situation, existential project, authenticity, and praxis. I then analyze the situation of MUS patients in the current cultural and institutional context, elucidating that a lac...... hiện toàn bộ
The concept of disease in the time of COVID-19Theoretical Medicine - Tập 41 - Trang 203-221 - 2021
Maria Cristina Amoretti, Elisabetta Lalumera
Philosophers of medicine have formulated different accounts of the concept of disease. Which concept of disease one assumes has implications for what conditions count as diseases and, by extension, who may be regarded as having a disease (disease judgements) and for who may be accorded the social privileges and personal responsibilities associated with being sick (sickness judgements). In this art...... hiện toàn bộ
Paradoxical Drug Response and the Placebo Effect: A Discussion of Grunbaum's Definitional SchemeTheoretical Medicine - Tập 24 - Trang 5-17 - 2003
Duff Waring
Grunbaum claims that the remedial failure of atreatment's characteristic factors is thegeneric, objective property of a placebo. Hestipulates that a treatment is placebic if thisremedial failure exacerbates the targetdisorder. This stipulation can subsume asplacebic effects that might be solelypharmacological, e.g., paradoxical reactions tocertain psychiatric drugs. If that exacerbationcan be expl...... hiện toàn bộ
Complexity of the Concept of Disease as Shown Through Rival Theoretical FrameworksTheoretical Medicine - Tập 22 - Trang 211-236 - 2001
Bjørn Hofmann
The concept of disease has been the subject ofa vast, vivid and versatile debate. Categoriessuch as ``realist'', ``nominalist'', ``ontologist'',``physiologist'', ``normativist'' and``descriptivist'' have been applied to classifydisease concepts. These categories refer tounderlying theoretical frameworks of thedebate. The objective of this review is toanalyse these frameworks. It is argued that the...... hiện toàn bộ
The Question of Questions: What is a Gene? Comments on Rolston and Griffths & StotzTheoretical Medicine - Tập 27 - Trang 523-534 - 2006
Lenny Moss
If the question “What is a gene?” proves to be worth asking it must be able to elicit an answer which both recognizes and address the reasons why the concept of the gene ever seemed to be something worth getting excited about in the first place as well analyzing and evaluating the latest develops in the molecular biology of DNA. Each of the preceding papers fails to do one of these and sufferrs th...... hiện toàn bộ