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.

The Keys to Democracy
Sortition as a New Model for Citizen Power
Maurice Pope
The Sentient Robot
The Last Two Hurdles in the Race to Build Artificial Superintelligence
Rupert Robson
Identity Politics and Tribalism
The New Culture Wars
Nikos Sotirakopoulos
At Our Wits' End
Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future
Edward Dutton
Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History
Alexander Adams
ZAP
Free Speech and Tolerance in the Light of the Zero Aggression Principle
Gerard Casey
Myth, Meaning, and Antifragile Individualism: On the Ideas of Jordan Peterson
Marc Champagne
The Blind Guardians of Ignorance
Covid-19, Sustainability, and Our Vulnerable Future
Mats Larsson
Shadow, Self, Spirit
Essays in Transpersonal Psychology
Michael Daniels
Quality of Life
A Post-Pandemic Philosophy of Medicine
Robin Downie

Works involving Robin Downie

Quality of Life

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