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How doctors think : clinical judgment and the practice of medicine /
"How Doctors Think" defines the nature and importance of clinical judgement. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science, but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. A physician looks at the patient's histo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents""; ""Introduction: Rationality in an Uncertain Practice""; ""I. Medicine as a Practice""; ""1 Medicine and the Limits of Knowledge""; ""2 The Misdescription of Medicine""; ""3 Clinical Judgment and the Interpretation of the Case""; ""II. Clinical Judgment and the Idea of Cause""; ""4 “What Brings You Here Today?�: The Idea of Cause in Medical Practice""; ""5 The Simplification of Clinical Cause""; ""6 Clinical Judgment and the Problem of Particularizing""; ""III. The Formation of Clinical Judgment""; ""7 Aphorisms, Maxims, and Old Saws: Some Rules of Clinical Reasoning""
- ""8 “Don�t Think Zebras�: A Theory of Clinical Knowing""""9 Knowing One�s Place: The Evaluation of Clinical Judgment""; ""IV. Clinical Judgment and the Nature of Medicine""; ""10 The Self in Medicine: The Use and Misuse of the Science Claim""; ""11 A Medicine of Neighbors""; ""12 Uncertainty and the Ethics of Practice""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""