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Medicine: Philosophy of

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Medicine is not only a specific kind of life sciences or applied biology. The fundamental interest of medicine is not to fabric theoretical knowledge only but to achieve practical goals. Medicine and the art of healing are practiced to be of benefit to humans who are ill or to prevent them from falling ill. This relationship between medical science and medical practice is significant for the epistemological status and the structure of medicine that is developed in a philosophy of medicine.

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  1. German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Dirk Lanzerath

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  1. Duquesne University Center for Healthcare Ethics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Henk ten Have

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Lanzerath, D. (2015). Medicine: Philosophy of. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_284-1

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