Ebook: Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine
Author: Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh (auth.)
- Tags: Philosophy of Medicine, Medicine/Public Health general, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics
- Series: Philosophy and Medicine 113
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Medical practice is practiced morality, and clinical research belongs to normative ethics. The present book elucidates and advances this thesis by: 1. analyzing the structure of medical language, knowledge, and theories; 2. inquiring into the foundations of the clinical encounter; 3. introducing the logic and methodology of clinical decision-making; 4. suggesting comprehensive theories of organism, life, and psyche; of health, illness, and disease; of etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, and therapy; and 5. investigating the moral and metaphysical issues central to medical practice and research.
Medical practice is practiced morality, and clinical research belongs to normative ethics. The present book elucidates and advances this thesis by: 1. analyzing the structure of medical language, knowledge, and theories; 2. inquiring into the foundations of the clinical encounter; 3. introducing the logic and methodology of clinical decision-making; 4. suggesting comprehensive theories of organism, life, and psyche; of health, illness, and disease; of etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, and therapy; and 5. investigating the moral and metaphysical issues central to medical practice and research.
Medical practice is practiced morality, and clinical research belongs to normative ethics. The present book elucidates and advances this thesis by: 1. analyzing the structure of medical language, knowledge, and theories; 2. inquiring into the foundations of the clinical encounter; 3. introducing the logic and methodology of clinical decision-making; 4. suggesting comprehensive theories of organism, life, and psyche; of health, illness, and disease; of etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, and therapy; and 5. investigating the moral and metaphysical issues central to medical practice and research.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Epistemic Impact of Medical Language....Pages 11-28
The Syntax and Semantics of Medical Language....Pages 29-50
The Pragmatics of Medical Language....Pages 51-56
Varieties of Medical Concepts....Pages 57-80
Fundamentals of Medical Concept Formation....Pages 81-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
The Patient....Pages 109-272
The Physician....Pages 273-274
Clinical Practice....Pages 275-380
Front Matter....Pages 381-381
The Architecture of Medical Knowledge....Pages 383-442
Types of Medical Knowledge....Pages 443-458
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Medical Knowledge....Pages 459-530
Technoconstructivism....Pages 531-551
Front Matter....Pages 553-553
Morality, Ethics, and Deontics....Pages 555-565
Disease as a Deontic Construct....Pages 567-575
Medicine is a Deontic Discipline....Pages 577-583
Front Matter....Pages 585-585
Logic in Medicine....Pages 587-673
The Logic of Medicine....Pages 675-681
Front Matter....Pages 683-683
On What There Are....Pages 685-710
Medical Ontology....Pages 711-756
On Medical Truth....Pages 757-762
Front Matter....Pages 683-683
On the Nature of Medicine....Pages 763-786
Front Matter....Pages 787-787
Science, Medicine, and Rationality....Pages 789-806
Perspectivism....Pages 807-814
The Doubter....Pages 815-817
Front Matter....Pages 819-819
Classical Sets....Pages 821-844
Classical Logic....Pages 845-906
Modal Extensions of Classical Logic....Pages 907-958
Non-Classical Logics....Pages 959-968
Probability Logic....Pages 969-992
Fuzzy Logic....Pages 993-1041
Back Matter....Pages 1043-1133
Medical practice is practiced morality, and clinical research belongs to normative ethics. The present book elucidates and advances this thesis by: 1. analyzing the structure of medical language, knowledge, and theories; 2. inquiring into the foundations of the clinical encounter; 3. introducing the logic and methodology of clinical decision-making; 4. suggesting comprehensive theories of organism, life, and psyche; of health, illness, and disease; of etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, and therapy; and 5. investigating the moral and metaphysical issues central to medical practice and research.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Epistemic Impact of Medical Language....Pages 11-28
The Syntax and Semantics of Medical Language....Pages 29-50
The Pragmatics of Medical Language....Pages 51-56
Varieties of Medical Concepts....Pages 57-80
Fundamentals of Medical Concept Formation....Pages 81-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
The Patient....Pages 109-272
The Physician....Pages 273-274
Clinical Practice....Pages 275-380
Front Matter....Pages 381-381
The Architecture of Medical Knowledge....Pages 383-442
Types of Medical Knowledge....Pages 443-458
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Medical Knowledge....Pages 459-530
Technoconstructivism....Pages 531-551
Front Matter....Pages 553-553
Morality, Ethics, and Deontics....Pages 555-565
Disease as a Deontic Construct....Pages 567-575
Medicine is a Deontic Discipline....Pages 577-583
Front Matter....Pages 585-585
Logic in Medicine....Pages 587-673
The Logic of Medicine....Pages 675-681
Front Matter....Pages 683-683
On What There Are....Pages 685-710
Medical Ontology....Pages 711-756
On Medical Truth....Pages 757-762
Front Matter....Pages 683-683
On the Nature of Medicine....Pages 763-786
Front Matter....Pages 787-787
Science, Medicine, and Rationality....Pages 789-806
Perspectivism....Pages 807-814
The Doubter....Pages 815-817
Front Matter....Pages 819-819
Classical Sets....Pages 821-844
Classical Logic....Pages 845-906
Modal Extensions of Classical Logic....Pages 907-958
Non-Classical Logics....Pages 959-968
Probability Logic....Pages 969-992
Fuzzy Logic....Pages 993-1041
Back Matter....Pages 1043-1133
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