Life the Human Being between Life and Death

Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Logic of Medicine. Two Models of Medical Knowledge; Z. Szawarski. The Logics of Medicine: Discovery and Evaluation; K. Wildes. The Structure of Medical Knowledge and Reasoning; J. Doroszewski. The Significance of `Alternative Medicine' for the Philosophy of Medicine; J. Widder. The Phenomenological Aspects of Mental Disorders; P. Mróz. Illness as Evil and Illness as Good; J. Hartman. Aesthetics of Medicine. Essay on the Borderline of Aesthetics, Art History and the History of Medicine; M. Golaszewska. Medicine and Art; G. Podraza-Ucinska. Part II: Conceptions of the Human Being. The Zapping Animal. Oscillating Images of the Human Person in Modern Medicine; H. ten Have. New Biomedical Developments and their Impact on the Legal Theory and Practice of the Mind-Body Relationship; C. Byk. A Human Being - a Cosmic Being; M. Kudelska. The Philosophical Foundations of Yoga Therapy; M. Jakubczak. To Be (Alive) or to Have (Good Health); K. Gibinnski. Worship - Autonomy - Responsibility. (Wo)Man and Death in the Second Half of the 20th Century; K. Szewczyk. Existential Values; J. Lipiec. Is Personalism an Adequate Moral System for Bioethics? The Test Case of Artificial Insemination; M. de Wachter. Part III: Ethics of Medicine. From Abortion to Euthanasia: Rethinking the Value of Life at the End of the Christian Age; T. Engelhardt. Changing Values in Contemporary Medicine; R. Barnet. Clinical Decisions, Impaired Capacity and the Public Interest; D. Evans. Advance Directives: Self-Determination, Physician's Responsibility, Value Of Life; H.-M. Sass. The Ethical Problems of Doctors's Decisions: ThePatient's Autonomy and Paternalism; B. Maroszyńska-Jezowska. Some Remarks on `Quasi-surrogate' Decision Making; J. Jaśtal. Justice and Beneficence in Deficiency Medicine; A. Alichniewicz. The Media and Health; I. Fiut. Part IV: The Polish School of Medicine. The Polish School of Medicine; Lessons from the Past; I. Löwey. Forerunner of Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine; J. Kaluźa, W. Szumowski. Annex.