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Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine: Expanding the open-access conversation on health care

Natural philosophy once spanned the fields of philosophy, science, and medicine. Scientific disciplines and medical specialties have rapidly achieved independence, and the availability of the internet and open-access publishing promises a further expansion of knowledge. Nevertheless, a consideration...

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Autores principales: Stein, Dan J, Bolton, Derek, Denys, Damiaan, Huddle, Thomas, Powell, Tia
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1459273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16759410
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-1-1
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author Stein, Dan J
Bolton, Derek
Denys, Damiaan
Huddle, Thomas
Powell, Tia
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description Natural philosophy once spanned the fields of philosophy, science, and medicine. Scientific disciplines and medical specialties have rapidly achieved independence, and the availability of the internet and open-access publishing promises a further expansion of knowledge. Nevertheless, a consideration of the grounding concepts and ethical principles that underlie health care remains paramount. It is timely, therefore, to contribute to the global conversation on health care with an open-access journal that focuses on addressing the conceptual basis of medicine and related disciplines, considering the ethical aspects of clinical practice, and exploring its intersection with the humanities (including history of medicine).
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spelling pubmed-14592732006-05-12 Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine: Expanding the open-access conversation on health care Stein, Dan J Bolton, Derek Denys, Damiaan Huddle, Thomas Powell, Tia Philos Ethics Humanit Med Editorial Natural philosophy once spanned the fields of philosophy, science, and medicine. Scientific disciplines and medical specialties have rapidly achieved independence, and the availability of the internet and open-access publishing promises a further expansion of knowledge. Nevertheless, a consideration of the grounding concepts and ethical principles that underlie health care remains paramount. It is timely, therefore, to contribute to the global conversation on health care with an open-access journal that focuses on addressing the conceptual basis of medicine and related disciplines, considering the ethical aspects of clinical practice, and exploring its intersection with the humanities (including history of medicine). BioMed Central 2006-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC1459273/ /pubmed/16759410 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-1-1 Text en Copyright © 2006 Stein et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine: Expanding the open-access conversation on health care
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