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Patient safety : the relevance of logic in medical care /
In our time of well-publicized health care travails, in the U.S. and the UK and elsewhere, matters of financing too often subsume the dimension of patient care. In his latest book, Alexander L. Gungov studies a vital but neglected aspect of patient safety. Of the thousands of medical errors committe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stuttgart :
Ibidem,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Studies in medical philosophy ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: wonders and impressions
- I. Vichian perspective on pathogenesis and therapy
- 1. John Stuart Mill's etiological causality
- 2. Various modes of causation in medicine
- 3. Disease mechanisms and pathogenesis in the light of verum-factum
- II. Abduction-based diagnostics. 1. Logical framework of diagnostics
- 2. Types of logical inference in clinical practice
- 3. Diagnostic methods from a logical perspective
- 4. Reaching the diagnosis through an affirmative inference
- 5. Clinical reasoning: coalescence of logical rationality and heuristics
- 6. Concluding remarks
- III. Logical errors in the clinical discourse . 1. The place of logical errors in medicine
- 2. The fundamental logical hindrances in diagnostics leading to errors
- 3. Informal logical fallacies through the prism of clinical practice
- 4. Cognitive errors in diagnostics
- Conclusion: patient safety in terms of logic and philosophical interpretation.