| Discipline | Health care, philosophy, bioethics |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Bert Gordijn, Henk ten Have |
| Publication details | |
Former name(s) | European Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care |
| History | 1987–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 1.450 (2018) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Med. Health Care Philos. |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | MHCPF5 |
| ISSN | 1386-7423 (print) 1572-8633 (web) |
| LCCN | sn99040981 |
| OCLC no. | 40820601 |
| Links | |
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal covering the intersection of philosophy and medicine, including bioethics.
Contents
The journal covers anthropology, history, ethics, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, philosophy of science and technology, science, law, sociology and political and the philosophy of culture and religion,centered on a common object of reflection: health care, the human effort to deal with disease, illness, death as well as health, well-being and life. [1]
The nature and value of philosophy Philosophy is an activity, an intellectual discipline, and you can learn by practicing. Philosophical training helps you think more clearly about any problem confronting you and distinguish sense from nonsense, and good arguments from bad.To do philosophy is to learn to identify the logical structure of arguments, clarifying debates by exposing ambiguities and errors of reasoning. Far from being an alternative to practical thinking.If thinking is to provide the basis for coherent practice, that logical confusions, about the meanings of terms and the implications of statements, are identified in this way. The choice is not between practical and logical thinking, but between clear practical thinking and confused thinking.There is certainly no credible evidence that tasks, as a rule, are performed more effectively if their performance is based upon confused thinking. [2]
