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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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Main Author: Thagard, Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Peptic ulcer > Etiology.
Medicine > Research > Methodology.
Medicine > Philosophy.
Helicobacter pylori infections.
Diseases > Causes and theories of causation.
MEDICAL / Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL / Diseases.
MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General.
research (function)
Helicobacter pylori.
Recherche.
Causalite.
Ulcere peptique > Étiologie.
Medecine > Recherche > Methodologie.
Medecine > Philosophie.
Infections à Helicobacter pylori.
Étiologie.
Helicobacter Infections
Peptic Ulcer > etiology
Helicobacter pylori
Philosophy, Medical
Research
Causality
Research.
Causation.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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