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- The expanding versus contracting universe analogy is used to illustrate current issues in the medical humanities, particularly in relation to bioethics.
- Bioethics is evolving into a powerful interdisciplinary field, posing a risk of overshadowing other areas within the medical humanities.
- The paper argues for recognizing the philosophy of medicine as a vital and cohesive field, essential for linking and understanding the diverse disciplines within the medical humanities.
Article Abstract
The question of whether the universe is expanding or contracting serves as a model for current questions facing the medical humanities. The medical humanities might aptly be described as a metamedical multiverse encompassing many separate universes of discourse, the most prominent of which is probably bioethics. Bioethics, however, is increasingly developing into a new interdisciplinary discipline, and threatens to engulf the other medical humanities, robbing them of their own distinctive contributions to metamedicine. The philosophy of medicine considered as a distinct field of study has suffered as a result. Indeed, consensus on whether the philosophy of medicine even constitutes a legitimate field of study is lacking. This paper presents an argument for the importance of a broad conception of the philosophy of medicine and the central role it should play in organizing and interpreting the various fields of study that make up the metamedical multiverse.
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