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Style and responsibility: medicine in postmodernity

¹Institut für Theorie und Geschichte der Medizin, Universität Münster, Federal Republic of Germany.

Theoretical Medicine

|January 1, 1994

Summary

Modern medicine can incorporate postmodern philosophy, embracing diverse paradigms while upholding its core moral duty. This approach acknowledges plurality and enhances the epistemological status of medical practice.

Keywords:

Analytical Approach Bioethics and Professional Ethics Philosophical Approach Professional Patient Relationship

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Area of Science:

Philosophy of Medicine
Medical Ethics
Sociology of Health

Background:

Modern medicine faces theoretical challenges in understanding disease and patient models.
Postmodern philosophy offers frameworks for analyzing contemporary healthcare complexities.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the influence of postmodern developments on modern medicine.
To identify applicable postmodern philosophical theories for medicine's theoretical problems.
To examine the epistemological status, disease concepts, and anthropological models in medicine through a postmodern lens.

Main Methods:

Philosophical analysis of postmodern theories.
Epistemological examination of medical concepts.
Exploration of the ethical implications of medical plurality.

Main Results:

Postmodern developments are observable in medicine's evolving concepts of disease and patient care.
Postmodern philosophy supports a plurality of medical paradigms.
Medicine's duty to act is compatible with postmodern plurality.

Conclusions:

Medicine should embrace a justified variety of paradigms, informed by postmodern philosophy.
Cooperation among diverse medical approaches must be maintained.
The fundamental moral duty of medicine remains paramount, guiding practice within a postmodern framework.