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Stochastic medical reasoning and environmental health exposure /
The validity of certain critical reasoning steps carried out during or on the sidelines of the environmental science, public health survey, medical experiment, population risk assessment, or disease space-time mapping under conditions of in situ uncertainty and space-time heterogeneity, is often not...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Imperial College Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Medical sciences in the age of synthesis. 1.1. Professional practice and stochastic medical reasoning. 1.2. Health: The fundamental roles of space-time and uncertainty. 1.3. Abstract and concrete modes of thinking. 1.4. Issues of sound medical decision-making. 1.5. Medical dialectics and knowledge synthesis: An outline
- ch. 2. Reasoning amidst uncertainty. 2.1. When "to know" means "to be uncertain of". 2.2. The space-time domain of stochastic medical reasoning. 2.3. In situ logic and uncertain mind states. 2.4. SMR's view of medical connectives: Beyond drug digestion. 2.5. Natural laws and scientific models. 2.6. Substantive conditionals in medical thinking. 2.7. The object language-metalanguage connection
- ch. 3. The role of probability. 3.1. How much understanding is sufficient in medical investigations? 3.2. Space-time probabilities of medical cases. 3.3. Probabilities of medical conditionals. 3.4. Stochastic medical inferences. 3.5. Probability, uncertainty and information of diagnoses or prognoses sets. 3.6. Diagnosis ranking and symptom confirmation strength. 3.7. The trouble with medical probability. 3.8. Translating medical assertions into probabilistic terms. 3.9. Space-time reasoning dynamics. 3.10. Medical syllogisms involving likelihood ratios. 3.11. Summing up: Checking the validity of medical arguments. 3.12. Self-referential medical assertions and cognitive favorability. 3.13. Not just a set of guidelines
- ch. 4. Space-time medical mapping and causation modeling. 4.1. Techniques with a "health warning" 4.2. Space-time disease mapping. 4.3. Modeling space-time infectious disease spread. 4.4. Space-time causation revisited. 4.5. Medical causation in the SMR inference setting. 4.6. Causation in terms of integrative space-time prediction. 4.7. Causation justification and the dualistic opposition
- ch. 5. Looking ahead. 5.1. An Ibsenian transformation. 5.2. SMR and divergence of rationality in medical thinking. 5.3. Challenges emerging from the incompleteness principle and unanticipated knowledge. 5.4. Information technology-based medical reasoning. 5.5. Social and cultural dimensions of medical thinking. 5.6. Quod iacet ante?