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- 9789402406627
- UPC
- 9789402406627
- ISBN
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- Recommended Age Range
- 0-12 months
- Item Length
- 23.4 cm
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- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Classification, Disease and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine
- Item Height
- 235mm
- Publisher
- Springer
- Topic
- Medicine, Popular Philosophy, Biology
- Item Width
- 155mm
- Item Weight
- 3577g
- Number of Pages
- 211 Pages
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This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how do we distinguish diseases, i.e. define classes of diseases and recognize that an instance X of disease belongs to a given class B? (d) How do we assess and choose cure/ therapy? The book is divided into three sections: classification, disease and evidence. In general, attention is focused on statistics in medicine and epidemiology, issues in psychiatry and connecting medicine with evolutionary biology and genetics. Many authors position the theories that they address within their historical contexts. The nature of health and disease will be addressed in several essays that also touch upon very general questions about the definition of medicine and its status. Several chapters scrutinize classification because of its centrality within philosophical problems raised by medicine and its core position in the philosophical questioning of psychiatry. Specificities of medical explanation have recently come under a new light, particularly because of the rise of statistical methods and several chapters investigate these methods in specific contexts such as epidemiology or meta-analysis of random testing. Taken together this collection addresses the question of how we gather, use and assess evidence for various medical theories. The rich assortment of disciplines featured also includes epidemiology, parasitology and public health, while technical aspects such as the application of game theory to medical research and the misuse of the DSM in forensic psychiatry are also given an airing. The book addresses more than the construction of medical knowledge, however, adding cogent appraisal of the processes of decision making in medicine and the protocols used to justify therapeutic choices.
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Springer
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9789402406627
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Book Title
Classification, Disease and Evidence: New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Medicine, Popular Philosophy, Biology
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
211 Pages
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Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Volume
7
Item Weight
3577g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
Country/Region of Manufacture
Netherlands
Editor
Philippe Huneman, Marc Silberstein, Gerard Lambert
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