Ebook: Fuzziness and Medicine: Philosophical Reflections and Application Systems in Health Care: A Companion Volume to Sadegh-Zadeh’s Handbook of Analytical Philosophy of Medicine

This book is a collection of contributions written by philosophers and scientists active in different fields, such as mathematics, logics, social sciences, computer sciences and linguistics. They comment on and discuss various parts of and subjects and propositions introduced in the Handbook of Analytical Philosophy of Medicine from Kadem Sadegh-Zadeh, published by Springer in 2012. This volume reports on the fruitful exchange and debate that arose in the fuzzy community upon the publication of the Handbook. This was not only very much appreciated by the community but also seen as a critical starting point for beginning a new discussion. The results of this discussion, which involved many different perspectives from science and the humanities and was warmly encouraged by Kadem Sadegh-Zadeh himself, are accurately reported in this volume, which is intended to be a critical companion to Kadem Sadegh-Zadeh´s handbook.

Rudolf Seising is currently an adjunct researcher at the European Centre for Soft Computing in Mieres, Asturias (Spain) and a college lecturer at the Faculty of History and Arts, at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (Germany).

Marco Elio Tabacchi is currently the Scientific Director of the Italian National Research & Survey Organization Demopolis, and a research assistant in the Soft Computing Group at University of Palermo (Italy).

This book is a collection of contributions written by philosophers and scientists active in different fields, such as mathematics, logics, social sciences, computer sciences and linguistics. They comment on and discuss various parts of and subjects and propositions introduced in the Handbook of Analytical Philosophy of Medicine from Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh, published by Springer in 2012. This volume reports on the fruitful exchange and debate that arose in the fuzzy community upon the publication of the Handbook. This was not only very much appreciated by the community but also seen as a critical starting point for beginning a new discussion. The results of this discussion, which involved many different perspectives from science and the humanities and was warmly encouraged by Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh himself, are accurately reported in this volume, which is intended to be a critical companion to Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh?s handbook.

Rudolf Seising is currently an adjoint researcher at the European Centre for Soft Computing in Mieres, Asturias (Spain) and a college lecturer at the Faculty of History and Arts, at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (Germany).

Marco Elio Tabacchi is currently the Scientific Director of the Italian National Research & Survey Organization Demopolis, and a research assistant in the Soft Computing Group at University of Palermo (Italy).

This book is a collection of contributions written by philosophers and scientists active in different fields, such as mathematics, logics, social sciences, computer sciences and linguistics. They comment on and discuss various parts of and subjects and propositions introduced in the Handbook of Analytical Philosophy of Medicine from Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh, published by Springer in 2012. This volume reports on the fruitful exchange and debate that arose in the fuzzy community upon the publication of the Handbook. This was not only very much appreciated by the community but also seen as a critical starting point for beginning a new discussion. The results of this discussion, which involved many different perspectives from science and the humanities and was warmly encouraged by Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh himself, are accurately reported in this volume, which is intended to be a critical companion to Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh?s handbook.

Rudolf Seising is currently an adjoint researcher at the European Centre for Soft Computing in Mieres, Asturias (Spain) and a college lecturer at the Faculty of History and Arts, at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (Germany).

Marco Elio Tabacchi is currently the Scientific Director of the Italian National Research & Survey Organization Demopolis, and a research assistant in the Soft Computing Group at University of Palermo (Italy).

Content:
Front Matter....Pages 1-25
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Fuzziness, Philosophy, and Medicine....Pages 3-8
The Construction of Fuzziness....Pages 9-18
Specificities and Vagaries of Medicine from the Viewpoint of Hard Sciences....Pages 19-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-81
Medical Ethics, Fuzzy Logic and Shared Decision Making....Pages 83-83
Health, Illness, and Disease – Adjusting the Coordinates....Pages 85-95
What Does It Mean to Be an Individual? The Patient as a Vague Object in Medicine and Research....Pages 97-108
Epistemology of Medical Knowledge....Pages 109-121
A Fuzzy-Logic Approach to Bioethics....Pages 123-132
A Philosophical Anthropology of Medicine: The Split Subject....Pages 133-143
Front Matter....Pages 145-153
Automatic Linguistic Report on the Quality of the Gait of a Person....Pages 155-155
Fuzziness in Medical Image Processing: Representation and Models....Pages 157-171
Medical Concept Representation and Data Mining....Pages 173-190
Application of Knowledge-Engineering Methods in Medical Knowledge Management....Pages 191-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-214
A Layperson Reflection on Sorites....Pages 215-215
Fuzziness in Medical Measurement and Approximate Reasoning....Pages 217-231
Approaching What-, How- and Why-Questions Using a Medical Example....Pages 233-249
Front Matter....Pages 251-265
On Examination of Medical Data with Approximate Reasoning....Pages 267-267
Statistical Procedures for Fuzzy Data in Medical Research....Pages 269-290
Probability, Fuzziness and Information: Defining Missions in Medicine....Pages 291-299
Front Matter....Pages 301-312
Medical Decision Making as a Group Choice Process: Consensual Dynamics in Fuzzy Diagnosis....Pages 267-267
Towards an Interpretation of the Medical Expert System CADIAG 2....Pages 313-322
Electronic Health Records Interoperability by Archetype Based Contexts....Pages 323-338
Front Matter....Pages 339-361
Fuzzy Pain Assessment in Musculoskeletal Disorder....Pages 363-363
Fuzzy Logic in Diagnostics of Rare Diseases....Pages 365-377
Category Theoretic Ontology for Representation of Assessment Scales and Consensus Guidelines in Elderly Care....Pages 379-399
Fuzzy Cognitive Map Decision Support System for Successful Triage to Reduce Unnecessary Emergency Room Admissions for the Elderly....Pages 401-413
Back Matter....Pages 415-436
....Pages 437-447