Introduction

Tristram Engelhardt, Stuart Spicker

1-7

Some basic explanations of disease

an historian's viewpoint

Lester S. King

11-27

Diseases versus healths

some legacies in the philosophies of modern medical science

Burns

29-47

Concepts of function and mechanism in medicine and medical science

Stephen Toulmin

51-66

Organs, organisms and disease

human ontology and medical practice

Mark W. Wartofsky

67-83

Comments on "concepts of function and mechanism in medicine and medical science" and "organs, organisms and disease"

Patrick A. Heelan

85-93

How virtues become vices

values, medicine and social context

Alasdair MacIntyre

97-111

Moral philosophy and medical perplexity

comments on "how virtues become vices"

Samuel Gorovitz

113-121

The concepts of health and disease

Tristram Engelhardt

125-141

On disease

theories of disease and the ascription of disease

Loretta Kopelman

143-150

Context and reflexivity

the genealogy of self

Richard Zaner

153-174

Comments on "context and reflexivity"

André Schuwer

175-180

The lived-body as catalytic agent

reaction at the interface of medicine and philosophy

Stuart Spicker

181-204

Comments on "the lived-body as catalytic agent"

André Schuwer

205-208

Round-table discussion

Tristram Engelhardt

211-234