This reading group is dedicated to new and old problems in philosophy of medicine. All are welcome.
Meetings take place on Tuesdays, 1–2pm, in Seminar Room 1.
Conveners: Tim Lewens, Stephen John, Jacob Stegenga, Anna Alexandrova
Lent Term 2018
Week 1 (23 January)
Boorse, Christopher. 'What a theory of mental health should be.' Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 6, no. 1 (1976): 61–84.
Week 2 (30 January)
Keyes, Corey LM, and Shane J. Lopez. 'Toward a science of mental health.' Handbook of Positive Psychology (2002): 45–59.
Week 3 (6 February)
Stein DJ, Phillips KA, Bolton D, Fulford KW, Sadler JZ, Kendler KS. 'What is a mental/psychiatric disorder? From DSM-IV to DSM-V.' Psychological Medicine 2010 11 40 1759–1765.
Week 4 (13 February)
Andersen, Holly. 'Mechanisms: what are they evidence for in evidence-based medicine?' 2012 Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 18: 992–999.
Week 5 (20 February)
Gillies, D. 'Evidence of mechanism in the evaluation of streptomycin and thalidomide.' Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 66 (2017) 55–62.
Week 6 (27 February)
Baetu, Tudor. 'The "Big Picture": The Problem of Extrapolation in Basic Research.' Brit. J. Phil. Sci. 67 (2016) 941–964.
Week 7 (6 March)
Sackett DL, Rosenberg WMC, et al. 'Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't.' BMJ 312 (1996) 71–72.
Guyatt G, Cairns J, Churchill D, et al. 'Evidence-Based Medicine: A New Approach to Teaching the Practice of Medicine.' JAMA 268 (1992) 2420–2425.
Week 8 (13 March)
Gillies, D. 'Hempelian and Kuhnian approaches in the philosophy of medicine: the Semmelweis case.' Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36(1) (2005) 159–181.