Portland-State-University 2023-2024 Bulletin

Phl 318U Philosophy of Medicine

Examination of central philosophical issues that arise within the theory and practice of medicine such as: the relationship of medicine to basic sciences, the roles played in medicine by normative concepts such as health and illness, the nature of causal reasoning in medicine, and the nature of diagnostic categories in medicine and psychiatry.

Credits

4
  • Up one level
  • 300