Robin Downie

Robin Downie FRSE, FRSA is Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and Professorial Research Fellow. His main philosophical writings include studies of his great predecessors in the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University — Francis Hutcheson and Adam Smith — and in the philosophy and ethics of medicine. Along with Sir Kenneth Calman he began the movement known as 'medical humanities' and he has been a member of many national committees concerned with medical ethics. His many books on medical issues have been written with doctors as co-authors and he acknowledges what he has learned from these collaborations. But as we enter the post-pandemic period he saw the need to examine the practice of medicine from a more detached philosophical point of view. This book is the result.

Works involving Robin Downie

Quality of Life

A Post-Pandemic Philosophy of Medicine
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The Covid-19 pandemic has shown the need for a fresh look at health and health care. This book offers a philosophical critique of medicine as applied science, but more positively it stresses the social causes of disease and argues for greater equity in the distribution of resources and the benefits of a wider evidence-base for medical treatments.

Works involving Robin Downie

Quality of Life

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