Philosophy, Medical

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Just do your job": technology, bureaucracy, and the eclipse of conscience in contemporary medicine. 
  • Abortion, death, and the sanctity of life. 
  • Aporia in Medicine. 
  • Bioethics and the Hypothesis of Extended Health. 
  • Breaking evolution's chains: the prospect of deliberate genetic modification in humans. 
  • Challenging the Hegemony of the Symptom: Reclaiming Context in PTSD and Moral Injury. 
  • Commentary: A case for studying the relationship between religion and the practice of medicine. 
  • DMS-IV meets philosophy. 
  • Epidemiologists, our patient is society. 
  • Healthcare Rationing Cutoffs and Sorites Indeterminacy. 
  • Hippocrates' influence on the origins of neurosurgery. 
  • Medical education as moral formation: an Aristotelian account of medical professionalsim. 
  • Philosophy of care delivery for spina bifida. 
  • Rational for "eight-in-one" chemotherapy. 
  • Reflections on suffering, death and medicine. 
  • Should academic medical centers conduct clinical trials of the efficacy of intercessory prayer? 
  • The MANTRA II study. 
  • The rise of empirical research in medical ethics: a MacIntyrean critique and proposal. 
  • The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 2: Issues of conservatism and pragmatism in psychiatric diagnosis. 
  • The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 3: issues of utility and alternative approaches in psychiatric diagnosis. 
  • The spirit of science. Presidential address to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Washington, DC, 30 April 1988. 
  • Toward a more materialistic medicine: the value of authentic materialism within current and future medical practice. 
  • Towards a common definition of global health. 
  • Whose best interest? 
  • Whose disorder?: a constructive MacIntyrean critique of psychiatric nosology. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Curlin, Farr A, Professor of Medicine, Duke Science & Society