A philosophy of medicine for the 21st century

该项目旨在开发一种新的健康和疾病理论，以适应当代生物学的发展，如“健康和疾病的发育起源”，微生物组在生理学中的作用，以及我们的身体是多个基因组之间进化冲突的地点，特别是在早期生命中。目前的科学不符合关于生命系统的身份和目标的常识性想法，该项目希望在哲学家和生物医学科学家之间产生密切合作，以便关于健康和疾病的新想法可以反馈到创新的健康和疾病研究方法的原则证明项目中。该项目将在医学哲学方面进行方法论上的创新研究，与生物医学科学家密切合作，以应对本世纪头几年对生命系统性质的变革性发现，并积极形成反映这些发现的健康调查的新形式。它将使哲学学科成为创造综合生物医学研究的积极参与者。

This project aims to develop a new theory of health and disease to accommodate developments in contemporary biology such as the ‘developmental origins of health and disease’, the role of the microbiome in physiology, and the fact that our bodies are sites of evolutionary conflict between multiple genomes, particularly in early life. Present science does not fit with common-sense ideas about the identity and the goals of living systems and the project expects to generate a close collaboration between philosophers and biomedical scientists so that new ideas about health and disease can be fed back into proof-of-principle projects for innovative new approaches to the study of health and disease. The project will conduct methodologically innovative research in the philosophy of medicine, working in close collaboration with biomedical scientists to confront the transformational discoveries about the nature of living systems that have been made in the first years of the current century and to actively shape new forms of enquiry into health that reflect those discoveries. It will make the discipline of philosophy an active participant in the creation of integrative biomedical research.