Philosophical Dimensions of the Neuro-Medical Sciences Proceedings of the Second Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Farmington, Connecticut, May 15–17, 1975

Philosophical Dimensions of the Neuro-Medical Sciences Proceedings of the Second Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Farmington, Connecticut, May 15–17, 1975 / edited by S.F. Spicker, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.

Although the investigation and regulation of the faculties of the human mind appear to be the proper and sole concern of philosophers, you see that they are in some part nevertheless so little foreign to the medical forum that while someone may deny that they are proper to the physician he cannot de...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Spicker, S.F (Editor), Engelhardt Jr., H. Tristram (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1976.
Edition:1st ed. 1976.
Series:Philosophy and Medicine, 2
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Medicine—Philosophy.
Medical ethics.
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Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Section I / Historical Foundations of Modern Neurology
  • Varieties of Cartesian Experience in Early Nineteenth Century Neurophysiology
  • Historical Development of the Concept of Hemispheric Cerebral Dominance
  • Reflections on Our Condition: The Geography of Embodiment Comments on ‘Varieties of Cartesian Experience in Early Nineteenth Century Neurophysiology’ and ‘Historical Development of the Concept of Hemispheric Cerebral Dominance’
  • Section II / Philosophical Implications of Psychosurgery
  • Persons and Psychosurgery
  • Psychosurgery: What’s the Issue? Comments on ‘Persons and Psychosurgery’
  • Section III / Neural Integration and the Emergence of Consciousness
  • Mind, It Does Matter
  • Mind and Brain: The Embodied Person
  • The Misleading Mediation of the Mental: Comments, on ‘Mind, It Does Matter’ and ‘Mind and Brain: The Embodied Person’
  • Section IV / The Causal Aspect of the Psycho-Physical Problem: Implications for Neuro-Medicine
  • On the Power or Impotence of Subjectivity
  • The Spurious Psyche-Soma Distinction: Comments on ‘On the Power or Impotence of Subjectivity’
  • Section V / Altered Affective Responses to Pain
  • Pain and Unpleasantness
  • Pain — The Existential Symptom
  • The Evaluation of Pain Responses: A Need for Improved Measures
  • Pain and Suffering: Comments on ‘Pain and Unpleasantness,’ ‘Pain — The Existential Symptom,’ and ‘The Evaluation of Pain Responses: A Need for Improved Measures’
  • Section VI / The Function of Philosophical Concepts in the Neuro-Medical Sciences
  • Round-Table Discussion
  • Notes on Contributors.

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