Medical Humanities: For a Philosophy of Biomedicine
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Abstract
After a quick review of how new advancements in the field of molecular biology have changed medicine and, thereby, the philosophy of medicine, I focus on three themes: 1) the logical problem of constructing a computational language for molecular biology; 2) the ontological problem concerning who we are from a biological point of view; 3) the epistemological problem regarding the status of the many definitions of clinical death.
Keywords
- Logic and Biochemical Processes
- Ontology and Biological Individuality
- Epistemology and Clinical Death
