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There has been a great deal of discussion, in this journal and others, about obstacles hindering the evolution of the philosophy of medicine. Such discussions presuppose that there is widespread agreement about what it is that constitutes the philosophy of medicine. Despite the fact that there is, and has been for decades, a great deal of literature, teaching and professional activity carried out explicitly in the name of the "philosophy of medicine", this is not enough to establish that consensus exists as to the definition of the field. And even if consensus can be obtained as to what constitutes the philosophy of medicine, this does not mean that it exists as a field. In order to constitute a field, an inquiry must be well-integrated with other cognate inquiries and disciplines, have an established canon of key books, textbooks, anthologies and articles, and a set of distinctive and defining problems. The philosophy of medicine as it currently exists fails to satisfy these criteria and, thus, fails to exist as a field of inquiry. The non-existence of the philosophy of medicine is unfortunate. Medicine and philosophy would both benefit from the development of the philosophy of medicine as a field. The philosophy of medicine is an essential foundation for bioethics, it should provide insights into some of the key problems of the philosophy of science such as the nature of explanation and theoretical evolution, and, ought help to shape the goals as well as the methods used in both experimentation and research in medicine and the health sciences.

In a paper in the prestigious journal Science, he presented some findings that seem to favor the biological explanation of homosexuality. [Simon LeVay] reported that, in examining samples of brain tissue obtained after autopsies performed on 19 gay men, 16 men thought to be heterosexual and six heterosexual women, he found systematic differences in their hypothalmuses, an area of the brain thought to be involved in sexual behavior

Stay tuned to see if Maria Jose Martinez Patino makes the Spanish women's track team. She almost didn't get a chance, because, for three years, Patino was banned on the ground that she was not a woman

Almost every football fan older than 10 knew that [LYLE ALZADO], like many other linemen in the NFL, was using steroids. So did his coaches, trainers, team owners and the NFL commissioner. They had to know, either by looking at the size of men like Alzado, or because ex-NFL athletes were more than willing to tell anyone who asked. But no one cared because the image that the NFL wanted to sell was one of size, strength, violence and power