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Philosophy of Medicine: Volume 16

Philosophy of Medicine: Volume 16

Gabbay, Dov M.
Woods, John

Hardcover

Series: Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Book 16

PhilosophyMedical ReferenceGeneral Mathematics

ISBN10: 0444517871
ISBN13: 9780444517876
Publisher: North-Holland
Published: Aug 23 2011
Pages: 600
Weight: 3.20
Height: 1.40 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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 and scientific realism as they apply to medicine or medical science in particular. Some discuss important concepts specific to medicine (diagnosis, health, disease, brain death). A topic such as evidence, for instance, is examined at a variety of levels, from social mechanisms for guiding evidence-based reasoning such as evidence-based medicine, consensus conferences, and clinical trials, to the more abstract analysis of experimentation, inference and uncertainty. Some chapters reflect on particular domains of medicine, including psychiatry, public health, and nursing.

The contributions span a broad range of detailed cases from the science and practice of medicine, as well as a broad range of intellectual approaches, from conceptual analysis to detailed examinations of particular scientific papers or historical episodes.

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