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How Scientists Explain Disease /

How do scientists develop new explanations of disease? How do those explanations become accepted as true? And how does medical diagnosis change when physicians are confronted with new scientific evidence? These are some of the questions that Paul Thagard pursues in this book that develops a new, int...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Thagard, Paul
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Pt. 1. Explanations. Ch. 1. Explaining Science. Ch. 2. Explaining Disease
  • Pt. 2. The Bacterial Theory of Peptic Ulcers. Ch. 3. Ulcers and Bacteria: Discovery. Ch. 4. Ulcers and Bacteria: Acceptance. Ch. 5. Ulcers and Bacteria: Instruments and Experiments. Ch. 6. Ulcers and Bacteria: Social Interactions
  • Pt. 3. Cognitive Processes. Ch. 7. Causes, Correlations, and Mechanisms. Ch. 8. Discovering Causes: Scurvy, Mad Cow Disease, AIDS, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Ch. 9. Medical Analogies. Ch. 10. Diseases, Germs, and Conceptual Change
  • Pt. 4. Social Processes. Ch. 11. Collaborative Knowledge. Ch. 12. Medical Consensus. Ch. 13. Science and Medicine on the Internet
  • Pt. 5. Conclusion. Ch. 14. Science as a Complex System.