Philosophy of medicine /

This volume covers a wide range of conceptual, epistemological and methodological issues in the philosophy of science raised by reflection upon medical science and practice. Several chapters examine such general meta-scientific concepts as discovery, reduction, theories and models, causal inference...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gifford, Fred (Professor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Elsevier/North Holland, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Handbook of the philosophy of science ; v. 16.
Temas:
Medicine > Philosophy.
Medical ethics.
Philosophy, Medical
Medicine > philosophy.
Ethics, Medical
M�edecine > Philosophie.
�Ethique m�edicale.
Medical ethics
Medicine > Philosophy
Internet Resources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction, Fred Gifford
  • Concepts of Health and Disease, Christopher Boorse
  • Medical Ontology, Jeremy R. Simon
  • Theories and Models in Medicine, R. Paul Thompson
  • Reduction in Biology and Medicine, Kenneth F. Schaffner
  • Causal Inference and Medical Experiments, Daniel Steel
  • Patterns of Medical Discovery, Paul Thagard
  • Evidence-Based Medicine, Robyn Bluhm and Kirstin Borgerson
  • Group Judgment and the Medical Consensus Conference, Miriam Solomon
  • Frequentist versus Bayesian Clinical Trials, David Teira
  • Uncertainty in Clinical Medicine, Benjamin Djulbegovic, Iztok Hozo and Sander
  • Greenland
  • The Logic of Diagnosis, Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh
  • Conceptual Foundations of Biological Psychiatry, Dominic Murphy
  • Brain Death, John Lizza
  • Nursing Science, Mark Risjord
  • Public Health, Dean Rickles
  • Index.

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