Death Sentences
View / Open Files
Authors
Journal Title
Philosophy of Medicine
Type
Article
This Version
AM
Metadata
Show full item recordCitation
John, S. Death Sentences. Philosophy of Medicine https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.83943
Abstract
There are many analogies between medical and judicial practice. This paper explores one such analogy, between “medicalisation” and “criminalisation”. Specifically, drawing on an analogy between the judge’s speech act of delivering a verdict and a physician’s speech act of giving a diagnosis, it suggests a novel account of the phenomenon of “overdiagnosis”. Using this approach, we can make some headway in understanding debates over the early detection of cancer. The final section outlines the relationship between this approach and familiar debates in philosophy of medicine over the nature of disease and philosophy of science over the “value free ideal”.
Embargo Lift Date
2025-04-27
Identifiers
This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.83943
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/336523
Statistics
Total file downloads (since January 2020). For more information on metrics see the
IRUS guide.