Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Editorial

W. Dekkers, B. Gordjin

Causal thinking and causal language in health care: Introduction to the theme

David Badcott

What is a genetic cause? The example of Alzheimer’s Disease

Wim Dekkers, Marcel Olde Rikkert

Causes of illness in clinical practice: A conceptual exploration

Stephen Tyreman

The causation of disease – The practical and ethical consequences of competing explanations

Ulla Räisänen, Marie-Jet Bekkers, Paula Boddington, Srikant Sarangi, Angus Clarke

Some causal limitations of pharmacogenetic concepts

David Badcott

Commentary on Wim Dekkers’s and Marcel Olde Rikkert’s: “What is a genetic disease? The example of Alzheimer’s Disease” and Stephen Tyreman’s: “Causes of illness in clinical practice: A conceptual exploration”

Lennart Nordenfelt

Complex Causation and the Virtue of Pluralism

Ingemar Nordin

Genetic Information in the Age of Genohype

Péter Kakuk

Moral dilemmas in neonatology as experienced by health care practitioners: A qualitative approach

Florence J. van Zuuren, Eeke van Manen

Care as a mutual endeavour: Experiences of a multiple sclerosis patient and her healthcare professionals

Barth Oeseburg, Tineke A. Abma

Artificial reproduction technologies (RTs) – all the way to the artificial womb?

Frida Simonstein

Une mort tres douce

Margje H. Haverkamp, Johannes J. M. van Delden

The value of autonomy in medical ethics

Jukka Varelius

Provide expertise or facilitate ethical reflection? A comment on the debate between Cowley and Crosthwaite

Stefan Eriksson, Gert Helgesson, Pär Segerdahl

Short literature notices

W. Dekkers

Books received

W. Dekkers

XXIst European Conference On Philosophy Of Medicine And Health Care

W. Dekkers

ESPMH News

W. Dekkers

The European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care